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Editorial
. 2018 Aug;73(8):702-703.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211537. Epub 2018 Apr 19.

Trends in tuberculosis in the UK

Philippe Glaziou  1 , Katherine Floyd  1 , Mario Raviglione  2
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Editorial

Trends in tuberculosis in the UK

Philippe Glaziou et al. Thorax. 2018 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: tuberculosis.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
TB incidence (solid line) and mortality (dashed line) rates per 100 000 populations per year in England and Wales, 1913–2016.
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