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Safer Generation of Spring-Loaded Fingerstick Lancets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , June 2002 , pp. 298 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

References

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