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WHO/TB/97.221
Distr.: General(e)
Original: English

GLOBAL TUBERCULOSIS PROGRAMME
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER
FOR REFUGEES

This document is not formal publication of the World Health Organization (WHO), and all rights are reserved by the Organization.
The document may, however, be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced and translated, in part or in whole, but not for sale nor for use in conjunction with commercial purposes.

The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors.

© World Health Organization
1997

This Manual was developed by the Global Tuberculosis Programme (GTB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Other participating agencies were the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the International Organization on Migration.

Acknowledgment is made to Dr. Michael Toole and Dr. Christina Drummond (International Health Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia), Dr. Nancy Binkin (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)), Dr. Jeroen van Gorkom (Koninklijke Nederlandse Centrale Vereniging tot bestrijding der Tuberculose (KNCV)), Dr. Claudia Kessler and Dr. S. B. Squire (Liverpool (UK) TB Interest Group) for their valuable comments.

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