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Tuberculosis Contacts, Concerns, and Controls: What Matters for Healthcare Workers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Margarita E. Villarino  and
Gerald Mazurek
Margarita E. Villarino*
Affiliation:
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Gerald Mazurek
Affiliation:
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHSTP, MS E-10, Atlanta, GA30333 (MEV1@cdc.gov)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , May 2006 , pp. 433 - 435
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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