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Nosology expansion: not always for health’s sake

Author: Rodolfo Saracci

Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Issue 7/2019

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Title: Nosology expansion: not always for health’s sake
Author: Rodolfo Saracci
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keywords: Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00527-0

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