Stopping the body count: A comprehensive approach to move towards zero tuberculosis deaths

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10010, 2015, Pages e46-e47

  Keshavjee, Salmaan ^a   Dowdy, David ^b   Swaminathan, Soumya ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DEATH; DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY; TRANSMISSION;

EPIDEMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84949517063     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00320-7     Document Type: Note

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