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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...
Autores principales: | Biranjia-Hurdoyal, Susheela D, Deerpaul, Shailendra, Permal, G. Krishna |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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