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Dumpster Diving in Sharps Disposal Containers: What's Really Inside?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marguerite McMillan Jackson ,
Stephanie Mulherin  and
Leland S. Rickman
Marguerite McMillan Jackson
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego Medical Center San Diego, California
Stephanie Mulherin
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego Medical Center San Diego, California
Leland S. Rickman
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego Medical Center San Diego, California
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 9 , September 1996 , pp. 570 - 571
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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