The need for global action against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Published in JAMA on June 09, 1999

Authors

S J Heymann1, T F Brewer, M E Wilson, H V Fineberg

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02115, USA.

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