Current issues in global tuberculosis control.

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Published in Int J Infect Dis on September 23, 2005

Authors

Richard Frothingham1, Jason E Stout, Carol Dukes Hamilton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. richard.frothingham@duke.edu

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