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Universal Precautions “Clarified”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Farrin A. Manian
Farrin A. Manian*
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St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 8 , August 1988 , pp. 343 - 344
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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1. Center for Disease Control. Update: Universal precautions for prevention of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus and other blood-borne pathogens in health-care settings. MMWR 1988; 37:377-382, 387–388.Google Scholar
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3. Centers for Disease Control: Recommendations for prevention of HIV transmission in health-care settings. MMWR 1987; 36(suppl 2S).Google Scholar
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