Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study
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Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-227