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Where Are We in Tuberculosis Infection Control?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael L. Tapper
Michael L. Tapper*
Affiliation:
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York
*
Hospital Epidemiologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, 100 East 77th St., New York, NY 10021
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 125 - 128
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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