Cameroon's multidrugresistant tuberculosis treatment programme jeopardised by crossborder migration

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 686-688

  Matteelli, Alberto ^a   Lönnroth, Knut ^b,c   Mosca, Davide ^d   Getahun, Haileyesus ^b   Centis, Rosella ^b   D'Ambrosio, Lia ^b,e   Jaramillo, Ernesto ^b   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^b   Raviglione, Mario C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

^e Public Health Consulting Group SAGL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAMEROON; CROSS BOARDER MIGRATION; DISEASE ELIMINATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MIGRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84958078813     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01597-2015     Document Type: Letter

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