Source: Annual Congress 2008 - Tuberculosis in immigrants, disadvantaged populations, elderly, HIV-seropositives and in other risk groups
Disease area: Respiratory infections



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F. C. Ringshausen, S. Schloesser, A. Schablon, A. Nienhaus, G. Schultze-Werninghaus, G. Rohde (Bochum, Hamburg, Germany). Contact tracing with an interferon-γ release assay in health care workers after exposure to smear-negative, culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, 2338

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