Microbial contamination and efficacy of disinfection procedures of companion robots in care homes

• Hannah Louise Bradwell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hannah.bradwell@plymouth.ac.uk

  Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9103-1069

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• Christopher W. Johnson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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• John Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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• Rhona Winnington,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Serge Thill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donders Centre of Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-4119

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• Ray B. Jones

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

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