The association between household socioeconomic position and prevalent tuberculosis in Zambia: a case-control study.

Although historically tuberculosis (TB) has been associated with poverty, few analytical studies from developing countries have tried to: 1. assess the relative impact of poverty on TB after the emergence of HIV; 2. explore the causal mechanism underlying this association; and 3. estimate how many c...

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Main Authors: Delia Boccia, James Hargreaves, Bianca Lucia De Stavola, Katherine Fielding, Ab Schaap, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen Ayles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3117783?pdf=render