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Outbreak of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in a Hemodialysis Unit: Potential Transmission by the Hemodialysis Machine? •

✍ Scribed by Elisabeth Delarocque‐Astagneau, MD; Nadège Baffoy, PharmD; Valérie Thiers, PhD; Nicole Simon, MD; Henriette de Valk, MD; Syria Laperche, MD; Anne‐Marie Couroucé, PhD; Pascal Astagneau, MD, PhD; Claude Buisson, MD; Jean‐Claude Desenclos, MD, PhD

Book ID
123962482
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
189 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0899-823X

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