Face touching: A frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene
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- 1 February 2015
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- Published by Elsevier BV in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 43 (2), 112-114
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.015
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