Infection Prevention And Control In TB Programs
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Infection Prevention And Control In TB Programs.
P oor infection prevention and control in congregate settings such as health facilities and prisons is a serious obstacle to advancing public health efforts worldwide and can have deadly consequences, as in the 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Other areas of the world with similarly high burdens of infectious disease are also in urgent need of improved infection prevention and control. Count...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Affairs
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0278-2715,1544-5208
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0050