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Oral hygiene: "Toothbrushes are an extreme place"

2021-02-15T23:55:23.787Z


Markus Egert is Professor of Microbiology at Furtwangen University. In an interview he talks about the danger that toothbrushes pose.


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Mr. Egert, microbiologists from the United States found in a study that toothbrushes multiply with microbes that are resistant to antibiotics.

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