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Hepatitis B Immunization of Hospital Employees in an Endemic Area: Should We Screen?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Saeed Hamid  and
Ahmer Iqbal
Saeed Hamid
Affiliation:
The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Ahmer Iqbal
Affiliation:
The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 680 - 681
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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