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Tuberculosis: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keith F. Woeltje
Keith F. Woeltje*
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
*
Medical College of Georgia, Section of Infectious Diseases, 1120 15th St, Augusta, GA 30912-3130; E-mail, kwoeltje@mail.mcg.edu
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 9 , September 1998 , pp. 626 - 628
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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