International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages e698-e703 , August 2010

Treatment interruptions among patients with tuberculosis in Russian TB hospitals

  • Evgeny M. Belilovsky

      Affiliations

    • Office of the Special Representative of the WHO Director-General in Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • ,
  • Sergey E. Borisov

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • ,
  • Earl Francis Cook

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  • ,
  • Shimon Shaykevich

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  • ,
  • Wieslaw M. Jakubowiak

      Affiliations

    • WHO HQ/TBS/THD, Avenue Appia 20, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 22 791 2485; fax: +41 22 791 1589.
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  • Ekaterina V. Kourbatova

      Affiliations

    • Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Received 3 June 2009 ,Revised 11 March 2010 ,Accepted 12 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.03.001

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages e698-e703 , August 2010