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Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Vincenzo Puro ,
Nicola Petrosillo ,
Giuseppe Ippolito  and
Janine Jagger
Vincenzo Puro
Affiliation:
Centro di Riferimento AIDS Ospedale “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy
Nicola Petrosillo
Affiliation:
Centro di Riferimento AIDS Ospedale “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Ippolito
Affiliation:
Centro di Riferimento AIDS Ospedale “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy
Janine Jagger
Affiliation:
Health Care Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1995 , pp. 324 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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