Sexual Inequality in Tuberculosis

Olivier Neyrolles and Lluis Quintana-Murci review the evidence on why tuberulosis notification is twice as high in men as in women in most countries.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2009-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000199PMID 20027210PMCID 2788129
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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