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Letter in Response to the New SHEA Guideline for Healthcare Workers with Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, and/or Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael S. Saag ,
Kathleen E. Squires ,
Judith A. Aberg ,
Arlene Bardeguez  and
Executive Committee of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA)
Michael S. Saag*
Affiliation:
Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Kathleen E. Squires
Affiliation:
Jefferson Medical College, Division of Infectious Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Judith A. Aberg
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Immunology), New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York
Arlene Bardeguez
Affiliation:
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
*
Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, BBRB 256, Birmingham, AL 35294-2050, (msaag@uab.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 10 , October 2010 , pp. 1092 - 1093
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

References

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