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Potential Consequences of Using Aplisol Tuberculin Tests in Prior Epidemic Investigations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce P. Lanphear
Bruce P. Lanphear*
Affiliation:
Rochester General HospitalRochester, New York
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , May 1995 , pp. 255
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995 

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