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Editorial

. 2012 Jul;142(1):10-11.

doi: 10.1378/chest.12-0045.

To repeat or not to repeat-that is the question!: Serial testing of health-care workers for TB infection

Robert Loddenkemper¹, Roland Diel², Albert Nienhaus³

Affiliations

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¹ German Central Committee Against Tuberculosis, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: rloddenkemper@dzk-tuberkulose.de.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
³ University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute for Health Service Research in Dermatology and Nursing, Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 22796831
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-0045

Editorial

To repeat or not to repeat-that is the question!: Serial testing of health-care workers for TB infection

Robert Loddenkemper et al. Chest. 2012 Jul.

. 2012 Jul;142(1):10-11.

doi: 10.1378/chest.12-0045.

Authors

Robert Loddenkemper¹, Roland Diel², Albert Nienhaus³

Affiliations

¹ German Central Committee Against Tuberculosis, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: rloddenkemper@dzk-tuberkulose.de.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
³ University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute for Health Service Research in Dermatology and Nursing, Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 22796831
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-0045

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