WHO's new End TB Strategy

@article{Uplekar2015WHOsNE,
  title={WHO's new End TB Strategy},
  author={Mukund W Uplekar and Diana E Weil and Knut Lonnroth and Ernesto Jaramillo and Christian Lienhardt and Hannah Monica Yesudian Dias and Dennis Falzon and Katherine Floyd and Giuliano Gargioni and Haileyesus Getahun and Christopher M Gilpin and Philippe Glaziou and Malgorzata Grzemska and Fuad Mirzayev and Hiroki Nakatani and Mario C Raviglione},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2015},
  volume={385},
  pages={1799-1801}
}
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