Pediatric injuries from needles discarded in the community: epidemiology and risk of seroconversion.

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Published in Pediatrics on August 01, 2008

Authors

Jesse Papenburg1, Denis Blais, Dorothy Moore, Mohammed Al-Hosni, Céline Laferrière, Bruce Tapiero, Caroline Quach

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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