Blood and virus detection on barber hair clippers
Background: Bleeding from the popular clean-shave ‘chiskop’ haircut was recently reported as prevalent in South Africa (SA), a country with 6.9 million HIV-infected people. Objectives. To investigate the prevalence of barber hair clipper contamination with blood and HIV and hepatitis B viruses. Meth...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Health Sciences
2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30855 |