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Resurgent Nosocomial Tuberculosis: Consequences and Actions for Hospital Epidemiologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

John E. McGowan Jr.
John E. McGowan Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Wthology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Clinical Microbiology (Box 248), Grady Memorial Hospital, 80 Butler Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30335
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 575 - 578
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992 

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