Are microplastics spreading infectious disease?

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• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2023-07-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.2311253120PMID 37494399PMCID 10401022
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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