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A Test of Tuberculin Quality: Tried and True or Tired and Tattered?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy F. Jones  and
William Schaffner
Timothy F. Jones*
Affiliation:
Tennessee Department of Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
William Schaffner
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Communicable and Environmental Disease Services, Tennessee Department of Health, 4th Floor, Cordell Hull Bldg, 425 5th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37247
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 8 , August 2001 , pp. 479 - 480
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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