Evaluation of results from occupational tuberculin skin tests - Mississippi, 2006

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 56, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 1316-1318

  Page, E H ^a   Driscoll, R J ^a   Gibbins, J D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b CDC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; MISSISSIPPI; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38149004414     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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