Bacteria on smartphone touchscreens in a German university setting and evaluation of two popular cleaning methods using commercially available cleaning products

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Folia Microbiologica (Prague)

• Publication date

  2015-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s12223-014-0350-2PMID 25305112
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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