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A Hospitalwide Approach to AIDS—Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Infections Within Hospitals American Hospital Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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As with any serious disease whose etiology is not understood, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is currently causing considerable concern throughout the United States. Stories about individual cases and about research progress in unraveling the etiology and control of AIDS, appear in the news media almost daily.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , May 1984 , pp. 242 - 252
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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