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Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in Health Care: The Price and Perils of Progress?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Building 10, Room 6-1480, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (dkh@nih.gov)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , April 2008 , pp. 294 - 296
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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