Tuberculosis and Illicit Drug Use: Review and Update
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 48 (1) , 72-82
- https://doi.org/10.1086/594126
Abstract
Illicit drug users continue to be a group at high risk for tuberculosis (TB). Here, we present an updated review of the relationship between TB and iKeywords
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