An investigation of household contacts of open cases of pulmonary tuberculosis amongst the Kikuyu in Kiambu, Kenya.

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• Publication year

  1961

• Venue

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  PMID 20604103PMCID PMC2555633
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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