Impact of social interactions in the community on the transmission of tuberculosis in a high incidence area

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Thorax

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/thx.54.2.136PMID 10325918PMCID PMC1745413
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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