Infection Control in Jails and Prisons
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- 15 October 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 45 (8) , 1047-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1086/521910
Abstract
At the end of 2005, ∼7 million people (or 1 of every 33 American adults) were either in jail, in prison, or on parole [1]. Compared with the generalKeywords
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