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Determinants of tuberculosis transmission and treatment abandonment in Fortaleza, Brazil

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health problem, despite recent achievements in reducing incidence and mortality rates. In Brazil, these achievements were above the worldwide average, but marked by large regional heterogeneities. In Fortaleza (5th largest city in Brazil), the tuberculo...

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Autores principales: Harling, Guy, Lima Neto, Antonio S., Sousa, Geziel S., Machado, Marcia M. T., Castro, Marcia C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28545423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4435-0