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Frontiers Editorial Office (2025) Retraction: The presence of Acinetobacter baumannii DNA on the skin of homeless people and its relationship with body lice infestation. Preliminary results. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1654624. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1654624
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