Closing the policy-practice gap in the management of child contacts of tuberculosis cases in developing countries.

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Published in PLoS Med on October 11, 2011

Authors

Philip C Hill1, Merrin E Rutherford, Rick Audas, Reinout van Crevel, Stephen M Graham

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand. Philip.hill@otago.ac.nz

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