Failure to deliver hepatitis B vaccine: confessions from a genitourinary medicine clinic.

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Published in BMJ on July 13, 1991

Authors

N Bhatti1, R J Gilson, M Beecham, P Williams, M P Matthews, R S Tedder, I V Weller

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, London.

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