Assessing the risk of tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers: the Melbourne Mantoux Study. Melbourne Mantoux Study Group.

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Published in Med J Aust on June 04, 2001

Authors

R L Stuart1, N J Bennett, A B Forbes, M L Grayson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, VIC. rhonda.stuart@med.monash.edu.au

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