ASM and RACGP agree: non-reusable sharps containers need strengthening

Terry Grimmond; Nick Demediuk

doi:10.1071/HI08011

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ASM and RACGP agree: non-reusable sharps containers need strengthening

Terry Grimmond ^A ^C and Nick Demediuk ^B ^C

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^A Australian Society for Microbiology, Suite 23, 20 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia.

^B Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, RACGP College House, 1 Palmerston Crescent, South Melbourne, Vic. 3205, Australia.

^C Corresponding author. Email: TGrimmond@danielsinternational.com

Healthcare Infection 13(2) 29-29 https://doi.org/10.1071/HI08011
Published: 18 June 2008

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