Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones with nosocomial pathogens?
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Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones are with nosocomial pathogens ?
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Address: 1Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit, 55139, Samsun, Turkey, 2Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit, 55139, Samsun, Turkey and 3Department of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit, 55139, Samsun, Turkey
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1476-0711
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-8-7