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Universal Precautions that Surgical Nurses are taken for Preventingfrom Diseases Transmitted by Blood and Body Fluids in Istanbul

@inproceedings{Cavdar2016UniversalPT,
  title={Universal Precautions that Surgical Nurses are taken for Preventingfrom Diseases Transmitted by Blood and Body Fluids in Istanbul},
  author={Ikbal Cavdar},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:217881539}
}
Healthcare workers working under risk should be informed about universal precautions in order to protect themselves from the diseases infected through blood and body fluids.
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