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Building Better Programs to Prevent Transmission of Blood-Borne Pathogens to Healthcare Personnel: Progress in the Workplace, But Still No End in Sight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David A. Pegues
David A. Pegues*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
*
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1688
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 10 , October 2003 , pp. 719 - 721
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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