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The Booster Effect—A Problem for Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Hospital Employees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2016

John E. McGowan Jr.
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , May/June 1980 , pp. 147 - 149
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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