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Healthcare Workers: Protecting Those Who Protect Our Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jane Lipscomb  and
Linda Rosenstock
Jane Lipscomb
Affiliation:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, District of Columbia
Linda Rosenstock*
Affiliation:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, District of Columbia
*
NIOSH, Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg, Room 715H, 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 397 - 399
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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