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Should Surgeons Be Tested for Blood-Borne Pathogens?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William P. Fiser Jr.
William P. Fiser Jr.*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, Arkansas
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , June 2002 , pp. 296 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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