Editorial Commentary:No Man Is an Island: Reducing Diagnostic Delays in Undocumented Foreign‐Born Persons Is Needed to Decrease the Risk of Tuberculosis Transmission
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- 15 November 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 47 (10) , 1284-1286
- https://doi.org/10.1086/592573
Abstract
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.…—John Donne, Meditation XVII, Devotions upon EmergenKeywords
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