Prevalence and risk factors of latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers in Malaysia
Open Access
- 18 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (1), 19
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-19
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