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Hepatitis B Vaccine—A Boon for Whom?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce H. Hamory
Bruce H. Hamory*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Hospital Epidemiologist, University of Missouri Health Science Center, Columbia, Missouri
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Department of Medicine, Hospital Epidemiologist, University of Missouri Health Science Center, Columbia, MO 65212
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Type
Editorial Series: Hepatitis B Vaccine
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , October 1982 , pp. 372 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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