The incalculable costs of tuberculosis

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¹ Division of Medical Microbiology, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. Electronic address: helen.cox@uct.ac.za.
² Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Helen Cox et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;9(10):e1337-e1338.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00345-4. Epub 2021 Sep 3.

¹ Division of Medical Microbiology, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. Electronic address: helen.cox@uct.ac.za.
² Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Economic impact of tuberculosis mortality in 120 countries and the cost of not achieving the Sustainable Development Goals tuberculosis targets: a full-income analysis.
Silva S, Arinaminpathy N, Atun R, Goosby E, Reid M. Silva S, et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Oct;9(10):e1372-e1379. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00299-0. Epub 2021 Sep 3. Lancet Glob Health. 2021. PMID: 34487685 Free PMC article.

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