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More Should Be Done to Protect Surgical Patients From Intraoperative Hepatitis B Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Shirley Paton ,
Shimian Zou  and
Antonio Giulivi
Shirley Paton
Affiliation:
Health-Care Acquired Infections Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Population & Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Shimian Zou
Affiliation:
Health-Care Acquired Infections Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Population & Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Antonio Giulivi
Affiliation:
Health-Care Acquired Infections Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Population & Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , June 2002 , pp. 303 - 305
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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