Conflict and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9953, 2014, Pages 1500-1501

  Acosta, Colleen D ^a   Kaluski, Dorit N ^b   Dara, Masoud ^a  

^a WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^b WHO Country Office in Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFLICT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL STAFF; MIGRANT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; REFUGEE; SOCIAL WORK; THREAT; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UKRAINE; MIGRATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WAR;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; UKRAINE; WAR;

EID: 84908277164     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61914-0     Document Type: Letter

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