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How Good Is the Tuberculin Skin Test?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John B. Bass Jr.
John B. Bass Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
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Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Alabama, 2451 Fillingim Street, MSTN 400-A, Mobile, AL 36617-2293
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 11 , November 2003 , pp. 797 - 798
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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