The duct tape adhesive biofilm will also stick to shoes and spread the biofilm throughout the hospital and from one patient room to another.

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The contract will see up to 100, 000 pairs of shoes supplied to staff in operating theatres and for general hospital use.

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She could neither read nor write, had never been to school, never been to a hospital or a clinic or a dentist, had never had a new dress or owned a pair of shoes, had gone to bed hungry on more nights than she could remember, and, like millions of other black South Africans, she had learned to settle for what was there and to expect nothing more.

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