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Prevalence of Needlestick Injuries Among Medical Students at a University in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Mehrdad Askarian ,
Leila Malekmakan ,
Mary-Louise McLaws ,
Najaf Zare  and
J. Megan M. Patterson
Mehrdad Askarian
Affiliation:
Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Leila Malekmakan
Affiliation:
Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Mary-Louise McLaws
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Najaf Zare
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
J. Megan M. Patterson
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Letters to the Editor
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 99 - 101
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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