Mantoux positivity among prison inmates New South Wales, 1996

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-188

  Butler, Tony ^a   Levy, Michael ^b  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b NSW Corrections Health Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRISONER; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032810312     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1999.tb01232.x     Document Type: Article

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