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Tackling Tuberculosis in Latvia

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Latvia faced rising unemployment, poverty, and alcoholism, conditions that fueled a surge in TB. Zipperer discusses how Latvian health professionals are tackling the problem.

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Autor principal: Zipperer, Melanie
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15916462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020122
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spelling pubmed-11409412005-05-31 Tackling Tuberculosis in Latvia Zipperer, Melanie PLoS Med Health in Action After the fall of the Soviet Union, Latvia faced rising unemployment, poverty, and alcoholism, conditions that fueled a surge in TB. Zipperer discusses how Latvian health professionals are tackling the problem. Public Library of Science 2005-05 2005-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC1140941/ /pubmed/15916462 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020122 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Melanie Zipperer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_full_unstemmed Tackling Tuberculosis in Latvia
title_short Tackling Tuberculosis in Latvia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15916462
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