Hepatitis B Virus Should not be Forget in Health Care Worker

authors:

avatar Masoud Mardani ORCID 1 , *

Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

how to cite: Mardani M. Hepatitis B Virus Should not be Forget in Health Care Worker. Hepat Mon. 2017;17(12):e65296. https://doi.org/10.5812/hepatmon.65296.

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