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Fans, Filters, or Rays? Pros and Cons of the Current Environmental Tuberculosis Control Technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Edward A. Nardell
Edward A. Nardell*
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*
Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, 1493 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02139
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 12 , December 1993 , pp. 681 - 685
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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