Poverty and tuberculosis: is it truly a simple inverse linear correlation?

Marais B. J., Hesseling A. C., Cotton M. F.

Source: Eur Respir J 2009; 33: 943-944
Journal Issue: April
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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