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Hospital Tuberculosis: Beyond the Inner City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John E. McGowan Jr
John E. McGowan Jr*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Clinical Microbiology (Box 262481, Grady Memorial Hospital, 80 Butler St., Atlanta, GA 30335
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 510 - 512
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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