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Recommendations for Preventing Hepatitis C Virus Infection Analysis of a Brooklyn Endoscopy Clinic's Outbreak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence F. Muscarella
Lawrence F. Muscarella*
Affiliation:
Custom Ultrasonics, Inc Ivyland, Pennsylvania
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 11 , November 2001 , pp. 669
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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