Sexual Inequality in Tuberculosis
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- 22 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (12) , e1000199
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000199
Abstract
Olivier Neyrolles and Lluis Quintana-Murci review the evidence on why tuberulosis notification is twice as high in men as in women in most countries.Keywords
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