Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Pai, Madhukar ^a   Dewan, Puneet ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDAQUILINE; DELAMANID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PRETOMANID; PYRAZINAMIDE;

EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84926435496     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001805     Document Type: Editorial

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