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Risk of Tuberculosis Transmission in an Adult Day-Care Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Judith E. Wolf  and
James L. Dean
Judith E. Wolf
Affiliation:
The Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
James L. Dean
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , March 1999 , pp. 157 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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