Traditional healers, treatment delay, performance status and death from tuberculosis in rural South Africa

R. D. Barker, S. K. Agarwal, F. J. Millard, J. Malatsi, S. de Valliere (London, United Kingdom)

Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic situations in adulthood and childhood in TB
Session: Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic situations in adulthood and childhood in TB
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 2720

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