Screening of immigrants in the UK for imported latent tuberculosis: a multicentre cohort study and cost-effectiveness analysis
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- 21 April 2011
- journal article
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- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (6) , 435-444
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(11)70069-x
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