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Protecting Patients From Surgical Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert T. Ball Jr.
Robert T. Ball Jr.*
Affiliation:
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Infectious Disease Division Columbia, South Carolina
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , June 2002 , pp. 297 - 298
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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