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Hospital Estimates $18,000 per year for HEPA Respirators to Prevent One TB Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gina Pugliese
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 677
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

References

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