Tuberculosis research meeting in Bahia
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Tuberculosis research meeting in Bahia.
For the past three years Bahia has the opportunity to sponsor the Tuberculosis Research Meeting in Bahia. These meetings are responses to the need of increasing the quantity and quality of research in tuberculosis. In this last meeting Dr. Christian Lienhardt from the WHO tuberculosis program presented impressive and convincing figures of the impossibility of eliminating tuberculosis without a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1413-8670
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2013.01.002