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Tuberculosis Surveillance in Hospital Employees: Are We Doing Too Much?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gilbert Lowenthal  and
Thomas Keys
Gilbert Lowenthal*
Affiliation:
Departments of Primary Care and Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Thomas Keys
Affiliation:
Departments of Primary Care and Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 209 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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