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The A, B, C, D, and E of Viral Hepatitis: Spelling Out the Risks for Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ludwig A. Lettau
Ludwig A. Lettau*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, the Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, South Carolina
*
Hospital Epidemiology, Greenville Hospital System, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 77 - 81
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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