Hospital-Acquired Infections: Guidelines to Laboratory Methods
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Laboratory-acquired infections.
Although numerous individual case reports and a few instances of institutional outbreaks of laboratory-acquired infections had appeared in the literature, the magnitude of this problem as it relates to the occupational health of laboratory workers did not become evident until the results of an extensive survey conducted in 1950 became available. Prior to that time only an occasional report conc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.32.8.858-c