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Tackling Tuberculosis in Latvia
0380 With a forceful gesture, the delicate blond unlocks the heavy door of a cell in Riga’s Central Prison clinic (Figure 1). Her name is Dr. Inga Nagele. She is the head of the clinic’s tuberculosis (TB) unit. She opens the door to check on three female prisoners who have just been admitted. The conditions in the cell are bleak. Washing hangs on a line that stretches from one wall to the other...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020122