Routine two-step skin testing for tuberculosis in the staff of a geriatric hospital in Israel: booster and conversion rates
- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 46 (2) , 141-146
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2000.0787
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