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How're We Doin'? Preventing Occupational Infections With Blood-Borne Pathogens in Healthcare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Building 10, Room 2C146, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-1504
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 7 , July 2004 , pp. 532 - 535
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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