Contact screening and chemoprophylaxis in India's Revised Tuberculosis Control Programme: a situational analysis.

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Published in Int J Tuberc Lung Dis on December 01, 2009

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V V Banu Rekha1, K Jagarajamma, F Wares, V Chandrasekaran, S Swaminathan

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1: Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India.

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