Unsafe injections and the transmission of hepatitis B and C in a periurban community in Pakistan.

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  2000

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  Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1590/S0042-96862000000800004PMID 10994278PMCID PMC2560828
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