Is DOTS-plus a feasible and cost-effective strategy?

Paul Garner1, Marissa Alejandria, Mary Ann Lansang

  • 1Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom. pgarner@liv.ac.uk

Plos Medicine
|September 14, 2006
PubMed
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