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For the study, researchers sampled the microbial burden on six objects in 16 rooms across three hospitals. On the 23rd month, the researchers installed copper-alloy surfaces in eight of those rooms. An analysis reveals the copper surfaces led to an 83 percent reduction in microbial burden compared to control rooms.
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