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Letter to the Editor

Hospital-based hepatitis C screening in a tertiary care centre in Mexico: targeted at health care-associated transmission

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Pages 139-141 | Received 25 Sep 2019, Accepted 08 Oct 2019, Published online: 23 Oct 2019

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