Providers walk a two-way street on the issue of blood-borne diseases.
All health care professionals involved in invasive procedures should be mandatorily tested for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and chronic hepatitis B, and make their status known to their patients, this infectious diseases specialist says.
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School of Medicine, University of Miami.
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