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Microbiological investigation of ties and shirts in a Teaching Hospital, in São...

Objectives: In this article, we aim to compare the contamination rates between neckties physicians in a large Brazilian hospital to those of lawyers. We also intend to compare the contamination rates between neckties and shirts from those two groups. We believe that neckties often serve as a fomite, carrying potentially harmful bacteria and, directly or indirectly, contaminate patients. Methods: We collected sw...