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Awareness and risk factors associated with barbers in transmission of hepatitis B and C from Pakistani population: barber’s role in viral transmission

Asian Biomedicine
Volume 4 (2010): Issue 3 (June 2010)
By: Yasir Waheed,  Umar Saeed,  Sher Zaman Safi,  Waqas Nasir Chaudhry and  Ishtiaq Qadri  
Open Access
|Apr 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abm-2010-0053 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
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Language: English
Page range: 435 - 442
Published on: Apr 13, 2018
Published by: Chulalongkorn University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year
Keywords:
Awareness,
barbers,
hepatitis,
razor
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Assistive professions, nursing,
Basic medical science,
Basic medical science, other,
Clinical medicine,
Clinical medicine, other

© 2018 Yasir Waheed, Umar Saeed, Sher Zaman Safi, Waqas Nasir Chaudhry, Ishtiaq Qadri, published by Chulalongkorn University
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