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. 2018 Dec 6;11(12):2479. doi: 10.3390/ma11122479

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Distribution of the environmental bacterial burden found on touch surfaces. Overall compilation for the five long term care facilities. (a) Box plot representation of all the values. Grey boxes, control; White boxes, copper. Horizontal line in box, median; Boxes extremities, 1–4 quartiles; Whiskers, 10–90 percentiles; dots, 10% highest values; Significant p-value of Mann-Whitney U test are noted in bold. (b) Frequency distribution of the bacterial burden concentration (%). Door handles: n = 341. Handrails: n = 347.