Active tuberculosis among health care workers in Portugal;Tuberculose ativa entre profissionais de saśde em Portugal

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 636-645

  da Costa, José Castela Torres ^a   Silva, Rui ^a   Ferreira, José ^a   Nienhaus, Albert ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health personnel; Occupational health; Tuberculosis diagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155214188     PISSN: 18063713     EISSN: 18063756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37132011000500011     Document Type: Article

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