An overview on tuberculosis-specific hospitals in China in 2009: Results of a national survey

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1584-1587

  Pang, Yu ^a,b,c   Du, Jian ^a,b   Qin, Zhi Zhen ^d,e   Greenwald, Zoë ^d   Liu, Yuhong ^a,b   Mi, Fengling ^a,b   Zhao, Yanlin ^c   Li, Liang ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention   (China)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Stop TB Partnership   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CHINA; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LETTER; LIQUID CULTURE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID CULTURE; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS SPECIFIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, CHRONIC DISEASE;

EID: 84969902728     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01854-2015     Document Type: Letter

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