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Is a Tuberculosis Exposure a Tuberculosis Exposure If No One Is Infected?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Edward A. Nardell
Edward A. Nardell*
Affiliation:
Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 7 , July 1998 , pp. 484 - 486
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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