Tuberculosis in an urban area in China: differences between urban migrants and local residents.

The increase in urban migrants is one of major challenges for tuberculosis control in China. The different characteristics of tuberculosis cases between urban migrants and local residents in China have not been investigated before.We performed a retrospective study of all pulmonary tuberculosis pati...

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Main Authors: Xin Shen, Zhen Xia, Xiangqun Li, Jie Wu, Lili Wang, Jing Li, Yuan Jiang, Juntao Guo, Jing Chen, Jianjun Hong, Zheng'an Yuan, Qichao Pan, Kathryn DeRiemer, Guomei Sun, Qian Gao, Jian Mei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3511410?pdf=render