Active case finding of undetected tuberculosis among chronic coughers in a slum setting in Kampala, Uganda.

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  2009

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  The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

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  Medicine

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  PMID 19335958PMCID PMC2842997
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