What is the evidence for a causal link between hygiene and infections?
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 2 (2) , 103-110
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(02)00184-6
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