Infections associated with religious rituals
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Infections associated with religious rituals.
This review evaluates the medical literature for religious rituals or ceremonies that have been reported to cause infection. These include an ultra-orthodox Jewish circumcision practice known as metzitzah b'peh, the Christian common communion chalice, Islamic ritual ablution, and the Hindu 'side-roll'. Infections associated with participation in the Islamic Hajj have been extensively reviewed a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2013.05.001