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Isolation and deisolation of patients admitted with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis

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Fatehi E. Elzein, Nisreen Alsherbeeni, Mohammed Mursi, Shoug F. Algoblan, Abuzaid A. Abuzaid and Ali M. Albarrak
Saudi Medical Journal October 2019, 40 (10) 1008-1012; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.10.24564
Fatehi E. Elzein
From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
FRCP, MScCTM
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Nisreen Alsherbeeni
From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed Mursi
From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Shoug F. Algoblan
From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abuzaid A. Abuzaid
From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ali M. Albarrak
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vol. 40 no. 10 1008-1012
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.10.24564
PubMed 
31588479

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 21, 2019
  • Accepted September 15, 2019
  • Published online October 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Fatehi E. Elzein, FRCP, MScCTM⇑,
  2. Nisreen Alsherbeeni, FRCP,
  3. Mohammed Mursi, MBBS,
  4. Shoug F. Algoblan, MBBS,
  5. Abuzaid A. Abuzaid, MBBS, Msc and
  6. Ali M. Albarrak, MD, FRCPC
  1. From the Infectious Diseases Unit (Elzein, Alsherbeeni, Mursi, Algoblan, Albarrak), Prince Sultan Military Medical City and from the Ministry of Health (Abuzaid), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fatehi E. Elzein, Infectious Diseases Unit, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: fatehielzein{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0465-3004
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Fatehi E. Elzein, Nisreen Alsherbeeni, Mohammed Mursi, Shoug F. Algoblan, Abuzaid A. Abuzaid, Ali M. Albarrak
Saudi Medical Journal Oct 2019, 40 (10) 1008-1012; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2019.10.24564

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Fatehi E. Elzein, Nisreen Alsherbeeni, Mohammed Mursi, Shoug F. Algoblan, Abuzaid A. Abuzaid, Ali M. Albarrak
Saudi Medical Journal Oct 2019, 40 (10) 1008-1012; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2019.10.24564
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