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Tuberculosis Control in Acute Disaster Settings: Case Studies from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2013

Jennifer Furin  and
Trini Mathew
Jennifer Furin*
Affiliation:
TB Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Trini Mathew
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Jennifer Furin, MD, PhD, TBRU, CWRU School of Medicine, 2120 Circle Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106 (e-mail [email protected]).
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 129 - 130
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2013 

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