CDC grand rounds: Preventing unsafe injection practices in the U.S. Health-care system

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 423-425

  Birkhead, Guthrie ^a   Hamilton, Thomas E ^b   Kossover, Rachel ^c   Perz, Joseph ^c   Gangadharan, Denise ^d   Iskander, John ^d  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Svcs   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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EID: 84878464125     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
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