Mobile phones of health care workers

The objective of this study was to evaluate the microbial contamination of mobile phones used by health care workers (doctors and staff nurse) in intensive care units and surgical post-operative wards of a tertiary care hospital.

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This study was conducted to investigate the bacterial contamination of mobile phones among a group of paramedical university students, staff members and laboratory specialists at the medical laboratory technology department, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences: Pharos University in Alexandria (PUA), Egypt and also to compare the results of Surface Spread technique (SS) versus those of Pour Plate technique (PP) in determining the bacterial count on the tested mobile phones.

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In recent years, the use of mobile phones in the course of a working day has made mobile phones potential agents of microbial transmission. The increase use of mobile phones is seen as responsible for rise in community infection rates reported by ecological findings. Several etiologic agents of nosocomial infections (which contaminate mobile phone) are of various genera and species of bacteria, virus, fungi including Staphylococcus aureus, Ecoli, Klebsiella species, Enterococcus species, and Proteus species have been identified.

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