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Universal Precautions: Still Missing the Point on Needlesticks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Janine Jagger  and
Richard D. Pearson
Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
Richard D. Pearson
Affiliation:
Internal Medicine and Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
*
Box 180 Medical Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , April 1991 , pp. 211 - 213
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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