Ensuring that the diagnosis of tuberculosis accelerates progress towards the Millennium Development Goals

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¹ Institute for Global Citizenship, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, USA chanson5@macalester.edu.
² Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
³ German Central Committee against Tuberculosis, Berlin, Germany.

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Christy Hanson et al. Eur Respir J. 2014 Jul.

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. 2014 Jul;44(1):1-4.

doi: 10.1183/09031936.00028514.

¹ Institute for Global Citizenship, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, USA chanson5@macalester.edu.
² Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
³ German Central Committee against Tuberculosis, Berlin, Germany.

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