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Isolation Techniques for Hospital Patients with Viral Hepatitis: New Guidelines Premature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

C. Glen Mayhall
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 71 - 75
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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