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The population biology of tuberculosis /

Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease. Reenvisioning tuberculosis from the perspective of population biology, this book examines why the disease is so...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dye, Christopher (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Collection:Monographs in population biology ; 54.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Tuberculosis undefeated
  • Concepts and models
  • Risk and variation
  • Interventions and control
  • Strains and drug resistance
  • TB and HIV/AIDS
  • Elimination and eradication
  • Populations and social diseases.