Notes From the Field: Hepatitis C Transmission From Inappropriate Reuse of Saline Flush Syringes for Multiple Patients in an Acute Care General Hospital — Texas, 2015

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• Journal Article:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
• Personal Author:
  Arnold, Sandi ; Melville, Sharon K. ; Morehead, Bonnie ; Vaughan, Gilberto ; Moorman, Anne ; Crist, Matthew B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.)Division of Viral Hepatitis. ; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
• Subjects:
  Critical Care Cross Infection Equipment Reuse Hepatitis C Hospitals, General Humans Notes From The Field Nursing Staff, Hospital Practice Patterns, Nurses' Saline Solution Syringes

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• Source:
  MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2017; v. 66, no. 9
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6609a4
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  28278142
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5687193
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Texas
• Pages in Document:
  p. 258-260
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:832fdc7b0b212413f6d7bb47e1867e89aa976b432f735efc68ac819b3924e5d11419c335e12a6dc493203df50b52062cd4a2a48ed86e94bd103b5a801ce6182b
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