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Precautions for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William R. Jarvis
William R. Jarvis*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, Center for Infectious Disease, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
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Hospital Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia30333
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 238 - 239
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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