A new era in the control of tuberculosis

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the world faced an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis. Favored by the dismantling of control interventions in rich, low incidence countries, by the overburden on national Tuberculosis Programs in resource-poor countries and by the HIV/AIDS pandemi...

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Main Authors: Enrico Girardi, Giuseppe Ippolito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:Infectious Disease Reports
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Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/6644
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spelling doaj-f11613aa5bf0479dab48255035352ff22021-01-02T13:10:52ZengMDPI AGInfectious Disease Reports2036-74302036-74492016-06-018210.4081/idr.2016.66443342A new era in the control of tuberculosisEnrico Girardi0Giuseppe Ippolito1Clinical Epidemiology Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, RomeOffice of the Scientific Director, National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, RomeIn the last two decades of the twentieth century, the world faced an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis. Favored by the dismantling of control interventions in rich, low incidence countries, by the overburden on national Tuberculosis Programs in resource-poor countries and by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the number of persons affected and the number of deaths due to tuberculosis started to rise. [...]http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/6644Tuberculosis
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A new era in the control of tuberculosis
Infectious Disease Reports
Tuberculosis
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title A new era in the control of tuberculosis
title_short A new era in the control of tuberculosis
title_full A new era in the control of tuberculosis
title_fullStr A new era in the control of tuberculosis
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2036-7449
publishDate 2016-06-01
description In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the world faced an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis. Favored by the dismantling of control interventions in rich, low incidence countries, by the overburden on national Tuberculosis Programs in resource-poor countries and by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the number of persons affected and the number of deaths due to tuberculosis started to rise. [...]
topic Tuberculosis
url http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/6644
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