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Routine Preoperative Screening for Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a General Hospital, Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tarif H. Zawawi ,
Mohamed A. Abdelaal ,
Abdelrahman Y. Mohamed ,
David J. Rowbottom ,
Waleed A. Alyafi ,
Khalid H. Marzouki  and
Adel A. Rashed
Tarif H. Zawawi
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mohamed A. Abdelaal
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdelrahman Y. Mohamed
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
David J. Rowbottom
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Waleed A. Alyafi
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Khalid H. Marzouki
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Adel A. Rashed
Affiliation:
King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , March 1997 , pp. 158 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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