Latent TB infection treatment acceptance and completion in the United States and Canada.

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Published in Chest on September 30, 2009

Authors

C Robert Horsburgh1, Stefan Goldberg, James Bethel, Shande Chen, Paul W Colson, Yael Hirsch-Moverman, Stephen Hughes, Robin Shrestha-Kuwahara, Timothy R Sterling, Kirsten Wall, Paul Weinfurter, Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA. rhorsbu@bu.edu

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