Prevalence, Characteristics, and Epidemiology of Microbial Hand Contamination Among Minnesota State Fair Attendees (2014)
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Microbial Contamination of Staff’s Hand while Going out of Hospital
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.574444