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Comprehensive Prevention of Occupational Blood Exposures: Lessons From Other Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 2000 , pp. 562 - 563
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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