Poverty and tuberculosis: is it truly a simple inverse linear correlation?
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Poverty and tuberculosis: is it truly a simple inverse linear correlation?
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00173608