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Microbiology/Public health

Mobile microbes: mobile phones are five-star hotels for microbes and spread disease

Lotti Tajouri Rashed Alghafri Matthew Olsen Simon McKirdy
December 7, 2022

Mobile phones have become our figurative third hand, so what happens when we don't clean them regularly?

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