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QuantiFERON-TB Test for Annual Screening of Healthcare Workers: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time in Low-Prevalence Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Manish Joshi ,
Thomas Monson  and
Gail Woods
Manish Joshi*
Affiliation:
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas
Thomas Monson
Affiliation:
Infection Control, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas
Gail Woods
Affiliation:
Pathology and Lab Medicine, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas
*
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, 4300 West 7th Street, 5C 144, Little Rock, AR 72205 (mjoshi@uams.edu)
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Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 5 , May 2011 , pp. 518
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

References

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