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Tuberculosis and Infection Control: What Now?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Henry M. Blumberg
Henry M. Blumberg*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and Epidemiology Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Butler St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303; e-mail [email protected].
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 8 , August 1997 , pp. 538 - 541
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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