Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient-Fear It or Forget It?

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. vckeri@gmail.com.
² Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of Transfusion Medicine, ABVIMS & RML Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Vishakh C Keri et al. J Bioeth Inq. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;18(3):377-378.

doi: 10.1007/s11673-021-10117-z. Epub 2021 Jul 23.

¹ Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. vckeri@gmail.com.
² Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of Transfusion Medicine, ABVIMS & RML Hospital, New Delhi, India.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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