Rates of latent tuberculosis in health care staff in Russia.

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Published in PLoS Med on February 01, 2007

Authors

Francis Drobniewski1, Yanina Balabanova, Elena Zakamova, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Ivan Fedorin

Author Affiliations

1: Health Protection Agency Mycobacterium Reference Unit and Clinical TB and HIV Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom. f.drobniewski@qmul.ac.uk

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