Hygiene of Toys in Day Care Centers: a Care With Children*
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Background: Toys enable nursing care qualification and extension because they provide a range of possibilities that can temper children’s coping with several different situations, by which means they can express feelings and establish confidence ties with the professionals that care for them. However, there is evidence in the literature that toys are vehicles of microorganism transmission and a source of cross-infection.
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