Efficacy of Triclosan as an Antimicrobial Hand Soap and Its Potential Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance: A Focused Review

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Pharmacotherapy

• Publication date

  2015-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/phar.1553PMID 25809180
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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