Directly observed therapy and tuberculosis treatment completion. Frieden re: Bayer et al.
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1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 2 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 3 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.89.4.604-a