title: TB across the globe (3). Tuberculosis in Russia.
abstract: This paper was presented in place of one that was to have been given by the late Professor A.G. Khomenko, Director of the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow. Professor Khomenko had a long and distinguished career and with his death Russia has lost one of its finest and most active workers in the fight against TB.
authors.affiliation: Medical Emergency Relief International (MERLIN), Moscow.
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Healing
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Peremetin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lyagoshina
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mishustin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trusov
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Goncharova
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rybka
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents