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Hospital-Resource Utilization and Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Patrick J. Brennan*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Tuberculosis Control Program, City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Hospital Epidemiologist, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 9 West Gates Bldg, 3400, Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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