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Disposable Needle and Syringe Containers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Steven A. Weinstein
Steven A. Weinstein*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Department, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 41 - 43
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985 

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