Childhood tuberculosis: progress requires an advocacy strategy now
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Childhood Tuberculosis: Progress Requires Advocacy Strategy Now
Andreas Sandgren, Luis E Cuevas, Masoud Dara, Robert P Gie, Malgorzata Grzemska, Anthony Hawkridge, Anneke C Hesseling, Beate Kampmann, Christian Lienhardt, Davide Manissero, Claire Wingfield, Stephen M Graham 1 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden. 2 UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switz...
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Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable infectious disease that remains overlooked by public health authorities, health policy makers and TB control programmes. Childhood TB contributes significantly to the burden of disease and represents the failure to control transmission in the community. Furthermore, the pool of infected children constitutes a reservoir of infection for th...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00187711