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HIV Screening for Healthcare Providers: Can We Provide Sense and Sensibility Without Pride or Prejudice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Building 10 Room 2C 146, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 631 - 634
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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