Continuing Importance of Laboratory-Acquired Infections
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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: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.55.2.190