Tuberculosis (cont.)
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Author: George Schiffman, MD, FCCP
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com
Previous contributing authors and editors:
Author: Sat Sharma, MD,
FRCPC, FCCP, Program Director, Associate Professor, Department of Internal
Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of
Manitoba; Site Coordinator of Respiratory Medicine, St Boniface General Hospital.
Coauthor(s): Deborah
M Sciberras, RN, CAE, Respiratory Nurse Clinician, St Boniface General Hospital of Winnipeg, Canada.
Editors: Mitchell J Goldman, DO, FAAP, FAAEM, Director
of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, St Vincent Emergency
Physicians, Inc; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Ungar, MD, Medical Director, Chair Department of Emergency Medicine Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Last Editorial Review: 1/15/2009
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