APIC position paper: Responsibility for interpretation of the PPD tuberculin skin test

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-58

  DeCastro, Martha G ^a   Denys, Gerald A ^a   Fauerbach, Loretta L ^a   Ferranti, Joanne K ^a   Hawkins, Kathryn ^a   Masters, Linda C ^a   Rimland, David ^a   Sharbaugh, Robert J ^a   Zeller, Jolynn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033054789     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-6553(99)70076-3     Document Type: Article

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