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HIV Infection per Needlestick in Health Care Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Larry M. Baddour
Larry M. Baddour*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , October 1987 , pp. 402 - 403
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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