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Wenger, N.S., Ross, J.W. & Young, R.T. An ethics committee's recommendations on testing patients for HIV antibodies when health care workers suffer exposure to blood-borne pathogens. HEC Forum 3, 329–336 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121057
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