How affordable are tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in rural China? An analysis from community and tuberculosis patient perspectives.

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Published in Trop Med Int Health on December 01, 2007

Authors

Xiaoyun Liu1, Rachael Thomson, Youlong Gong, Fengzeng Zhao, S Bertel Squire, Rachel Tolhurst, Xinping Zhao, Fei Yan, Shenglan Tang

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and EQUI-TB Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

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