Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 90-95 , March 2010

The international health regulations (2005), tuberculosis and air travel

Received 27 October 2009 ,Accepted 2 November 2009.

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PII: S1477-8939(09)00159-8

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.11.003

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 90-95 , March 2010