Baltimore Uses Inner City Aides in a Tuberculosis Control Program
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Inner city tuberculosis and immunization policy.
Asian children, excluding recently arrived immigrants, had a similar incidence of tuberculosis to white children in Leeds from 1982-6. Children living in the urban priority area were 2.6 times more likely to develop tuberculosis than those living elsewhere. Selection for infant BCG immunisation should not depend on ethnic group alone.
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4594014