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The American Red Cross Experience with HTLV-I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Roger Y. Dodd ,
Chyang T. Fang  and
Alan E. Williams
Roger Y. Dodd
Affiliation:
American Red Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratories, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Rockville, Maryland
Chyang T. Fang
Affiliation:
American Red Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratories, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Rockville, Maryland
Alan E. Williams
Affiliation:
American Red Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratories, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Rockville, Maryland
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 8 , August 1988 , pp. 357 - 358
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988 

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