Location, location, location: tuberculosis services in highest burden countries

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2016, Pages e907-e908

  Huddart, Sophie ^a,b   MacLean, Emily ^a,b   Pai, Madhukar ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; GLOBAL HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COST OF ILLNESS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84999652220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30248-0     Document Type: Letter

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