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HIV Transmission from Surgeons and Dentists to Patients: Can Models Predict the Risk?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ban Mishu  and
William Schaffner
Ban Mishu*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
William Schaffner
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
A-3310 Medical Center North. Division of Infectious Diseases., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , March 1994 , pp. 144 - 146
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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