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Assessment of Occupational Exposure to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus in a Referral Hospital in Burundi, Central Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Françoise Le Pont ,
Venant Hatungimana ,
Marguerite Guiguet ,
Anathase Ndayiragije ,
Jean Ndoricimpa ,
Theodore Niyongabo ,
Bernard Larouzé  and
The Burhop Research Group
Françoise Le Pont
Affiliation:
INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint Antoine, Paris, France
Venant Hatungimana
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi
Marguerite Guiguet
Affiliation:
INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint Antoine, Paris, France
Anathase Ndayiragije
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Kamenge Bujumbura, Burundi
Jean Ndoricimpa
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Kamenge Bujumbura, Burundi
Theodore Niyongabo
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Kamenge Bujumbura, Burundi
Bernard Larouzé
Affiliation:
INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint Antoine, Paris, France
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 10 , October 2003 , pp. 717 - 718
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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