Tuberculosis Casefinding, 1961
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Tuberculin skin testing of children as an effective tool in tuberculosis casefinding.
he marked annual decrease in the number of Tnewly reported cases of active tuberculosis during the past ten years has been accompanied by a similar decreased effectiveness of chest x-ray mass screening as a tool in community tuberculosis casefinding programs. However, during the same period, tuberculin skin testing of pre-school and school age children, followed by a thorough examination of pos...
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متن کاملCornelia Isabella Bargmann (1961- )
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes [4], neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans [5] (C. elegans) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US. Bargmann?s research focused on how the sense of smell (olfaction) in the nematode word Caenorhabditis elegans [6]. She provided a model to study how neural circuits develop and fun...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4591307