The association between household socioeconomic position and prevalent tuberculosis in Zambia: a case-control study.
Although historically tuberculosis (TB) has been associated with poverty, few analytical studies from developing countries have tried to: 1. assess the relative impact of poverty on TB after the emergence of HIV; 2. explore the causal mechanism underlying this association; and 3. estimate how many c...
Main Authors: | Delia Boccia, James Hargreaves, Bianca Lucia De Stavola, Katherine Fielding, Ab Schaap, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen Ayles |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3117783?pdf=render |
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