An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010
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An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010 Robin Wood & Linda-Gail Bekker To cite this article: Robin Wood & Linda-Gail Bekker (2017) An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 72:3, 234-241, DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2017.1290709 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2017.1290709
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