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Safety Butterfly Needles for Blood Drawing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Vincenzo Puro  and
Giuseppe Ippolito
Vincenzo Puro
Affiliation:
Centro di Riferimento AIDS, IRCCS “L. Spallanzani” Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Ippolito
Affiliation:
Centro di Riferimento AIDS, IRCCS “L. Spallanzani” Rome, Italy
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 299
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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