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Changing Times, Changing Landscapes: Comparing the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America's Infected Provider Guidelines with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guidelines for Managing Providers Infected with Hepatitis B Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
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Building 10, Room 6-1480, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (dkh@nih.gov)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 11 , November 2012 , pp. 1152 - 1155
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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