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Isolation Rooms for Tuberculosis Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Mark Nicas ,
Joan E. Sprinson ,
Sarah E. Royce ,
Robert J. Harrison  and
Janet M. Macher
Mark Nicas
Affiliation:
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California
Joan E. Sprinson
Affiliation:
California Department of Health Services, Division of Communicable Disease Control, Tuberculosis Control Branch, Berkeley, California
Sarah E. Royce
Affiliation:
California Department of Health Services, Division of Communicable Disease Control, Tuberculosis Control Branch, Berkeley, California
Robert J. Harrison
Affiliation:
Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, Occupational Health Surveillance and Evaluation Program, Berkeley, California
Janet M. Macher
Affiliation:
Environmental Health Laboratory Branch, Berkeley, California
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 11 , November 1993 , pp. 619 - 622
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993 

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