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Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin Vaccination for Tuberculosis Prevention in Healthcare Workers: How Good Is Good Enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , March 1998 , pp. 159 - 161
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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