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Needlestick Prevention: New Paradigms for Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Julie Louise Gerberding
Julie Louise Gerberding*
Affiliation:
University of California, and the HIV Prevention Service, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
*
Department of Medicine, 5H 22, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , May 1992 , pp. 257 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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