Group Chest X-Ray Examinations and the Tuberculosis Death Rate
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Tuberculosis screening and chest x-ray films.
CHEST, 68: 3, SEPTEMBER, 1975 SUPPLEMENT ing this infection and to seek medical care whenever he has a cough that hangs on more than two to three weeks after a cold, fatigue, loss of weight, or fever of unknown origin. At the urging of the Public Health Service three years ago, a program was undertaken in a rural Arkansas county to identify all persons at risk of developing tuberculosis by inst...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4588194