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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Sabah, Malaysia, 2012–2018

2020-07-29

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is of high public health importance in Malaysia. Sabah State, located on the island of Borneo, has previously reported a particularly high burden of disease and faces unique contextual challenges compared with peninsular Malaysia. The aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology of TB in Sabah to identify risk groups and hot spots of TB transmission. <...

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Literature Corpus work: 9f0b211a-e876-592a-a7af-9d7724e59d04
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-28071/v3

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