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Hepatitis B Morbidity in Municipal and Hospital Waste Collection Workers in the City of Rio de Janeiro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

João Alberto Ferreira ,
Anamaria Testa Tambellini ,
Carmem Lúcia Pessoa da Silva  and
Maria Angélica A.M. Guimarães
João Alberto Ferreira
Affiliation:
Engineering School of Rio de Janeiro, State University-UERJ
Anamaria Testa Tambellini
Affiliation:
Microbiology Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carmem Lúcia Pessoa da Silva
Affiliation:
Microbiology Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maria Angélica A.M. Guimarães
Affiliation:
Microbiology Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 9 , September 1999 , pp. 591 - 592
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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