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A study to investigate the importance of purses as fomites

BACKGROUND: Purses hardly get washed and are discarded, mostly, when they are no longer usable. This study aims to investigate whether women's and men's purses can serve as fomites. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 145 purses from 80 women and 65 men were swabbed and cultured. The bacteri...

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Autores principales: Biranjia-Hurdoyal, Susheela D, Deerpaul, Shailendra, Permal, G. Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26261804
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.156652