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Volume 328:969 April 1, 1993 Number 13
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Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Associated with a Finger-Stick Device

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To the Editor: Polish et al. (March 12, 1992, issue)1 present data to indicate that an outbreak of acute hepatitis B virus infection at the Fresno Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fresno, California, was due to improper use of the Autolet device (Owen Mumford, Oxford, England), which we distribute. They determined this from the response to a questionnaire submitted to the nursing staff of the medical ward, rather than by examination of the purchase-order records of all finger-stick devices in the institution during the outbreak (March 15 through December 31, 1989).

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