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High Throughput Metagenomic Analysis Exposes Mobile Phones as Potentially Hazardous Microbial Platforms Warranting Robust Public Health and Biosecurity Protocols

2021-12-06

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<h4>Introduction: </h4> Advancements in technology and communication have revolutionised the 21 st century with the introduction of mobile phones and smartphones. These phones are known to be platforms harbouring microbes with recent research shedding light on the abundance and broad spectrum of organisms they harbour. Mobile phone use in the community and in professional sectors including health care settings is...

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Literature Corpus work: 48e5e1de-aaef-50c2-bbc7-e330ada0040c
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1122873/v1

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