1692Do Resident Physicians Agree with LTBI Treatment Guidelines?
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Arun Janakiraman, MD; Franklin Yates, MD; Anna Headly, MD; Darren R. Linkin, MD, MSCE; Christopher Vinnard, MD; Medicine, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ; Infectious Diseases, Drexel University College of Medicine/ Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
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