Assessing the utility of contact tracing in reducing the magnitude of tuberculosis

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shrivastava, Saurabh R ^a   Shrivastava, Prateek S ^a   Ramasamy, Jegadeesh ^a  

^a Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth Deemed to Be University   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LETTER; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MOBILE APPLICATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84925993355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/iee.v4.25265     Document Type: Letter

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