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Reducing Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens: Where Do We Stand a Decade Later?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
International Health Care Worker Safety Center, Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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International Health Care Worker Safety Center, Box 407 Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 9 , September 1996 , pp. 573 - 575
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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