Tuberculosis data sampling of a district hospital in Malawi: An epidemiological perspective

Judy S. Lee; Tae Youn Kim; Fengjun Shen; Hannah Son; Won Seok Yoo; Sung-Jae Chung; George Talama; Jerome Z. Nkambule

doi:10.5897/JPHE2016.0907

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Public Health and Epidemiology

Abbreviation: J. Public Health Epidemiol.
Language: English
ISSN: 2141-2316
DOI: 10.5897/JPHE
Start Year: 2009
Published Articles: 655

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Tuberculosis data sampling of a district hospital in Malawi: An epidemiological perspective

Judy S. Lee

Judy S. Lee
School of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
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Tae Youn Kim

Tae Youn Kim
Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Fengjun Shen

Fengjun Shen
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Hannah Son

Hannah Son
Department of Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Won Seok Yoo

Won Seok Yoo
Department of Chemistry, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Sung-Jae Chung

Sung-Jae Chung
School of Arts and Sciences, Marymount University, Arlington, VA 22203, USA.
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George Talama

George Talama
STEM Research Institute, Fairfax, VA 22031, USA.
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Jerome Z. Nkambule

Jerome Z. Nkambule
Kasungu District Hospital, Kasungu District, Malawi.
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Article Number - EA2913E65949
Vol.9(9), pp. 238-243 , September 2017
https://doi.org/10.5897/JPHE2016.0907

Received: 29 December 2016
Accepted: 14 July 2017
Published: 30 September 2017

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