The Changing Face of the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis due to Molecular Strain Typing: A Review
About one third of the world population is infected with tubercle bacilli, causing eight million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) and three million deaths each year. After years of lack of interest in the disease, World Health Organization recently declared TB a global emergency and it is clear that t...
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Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
1997-05-01
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| Series: | Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761997000300001 |