Study of the role of mobile phones in the transmission of Hospital acquired infections

Angadi, Kalpana; Misra, Rabindra Nath; Gupta, Urvashi; Jadhav, Savita; Sardar, Moumita

doi:10.4103/0975-2870.135256

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“…In the current study, MRSA was detected in 53% of the samples, followed by CoNS (50%), Bacillus (43%), diphtheroids (30%), MSSA (185%), E. coli and Viridans streptococci (13% each), micrococci (10%), Klebsiella pneumoniae and ESBL Klebsiella pneumoniae (8% each) and finally Acinetobacter baumanii and Candida (3% each). A nearly similar result was reported by Angadi et al (2014) where MRSA was isolated from 53.3% of HCWs mobile phones [ 7 ]. In the study by Tagoe et al (2011) [ 2 ] the isolated bacteria included Klebsiella pneumoniae (10%), Citrobacter spp.…”

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“…Colonized micro-organisms on the devices of HCWs may be transmitted to patients even if patients do not have direct contact with mobile phones [ 6 ]. These organisms if pathogenic can be detrimental to the health of the patients especially those in critical care units and if the organisms transferred happen to be drug-resistant; the situation becomes even more grave as it becomes difficult to treat because of the limited drug options available [ 7 ].…”

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Microbial contamination of mobile phones in a health care setting in Alexandria, Egypt

Selim

Abaza

2015

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control; 10:Doc03; ISSN 2196-5226

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confidence: 87%

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Microbial contamination of mobile phones in a health care setting in Alexandria, Egypt

Selim

Abaza

2015

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control; 10:Doc03; ISSN 2196-5226

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“…It can cause mild to serious infections if it enters the body through cuts, wounds, etc. (Angadi et al, 2014). S. aureus mainly introduced from hands which is the main reservoir for this bacteria and introduced to food while preparation.…”

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Microbial contamination of cell phones of nursing department students in Technical Institute of Baqubah, Iraq

Fadhil¹

2019

Afr. J. Microbiol. Res.

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This study was aimed to investigate microbiological colonization of cell phones used by nursing students of Baqubah Technical Institute, from June to August 2018. In 150 randomly collected cell phones, 133 bacterial and 74 fungal species were isolated using sterile swabs from cell phones surface. The microbe were identified using conventional methods, bacterial species isolated were: Staphylococcus aureus (48%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (25.2), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (14.1), Bacillus subtilis (7%), Escherichia coli (2.3), Streptococcus viridians (2%) and Proteus spp. (1.2%) whereas, the fungal species isolated were Cladosporium spp. (36.1%), Alternaria spp. (17%), Penicillium (9%), Aspergillus fumigates (6.3%), and Aspergillus niger (32%). The bacterial isolates were tested by antibiotic disks diffusion method. High percentage of bacterial isolates was found resistance to erythromycin, cefoxitin, ciprofloxacin and clindamycin. Several S. aureus and S. epidermides isolates were resistant to erythromycin and cefoxitin. The Proteus spp. and E. coli were found highly sensitive to ampicilin, amikacin, cefepime, cefroxain and imipenem. However, the P. aeruginoae spp. showed two different antibiotics sensitivity profiles for the similar antibiotics. This study confirmed that the students cell phones were contaminated with several pathogenic bacterial and fungal species thus might act as an important source of cross-transmission of human and antibiotics resistant.

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“…Tambe and Pai [16] recovered 65 S. aureus from 120 mobile phones of health-care providers as the most prevalent bacteria species from the cell phones, and this agrees with the findings of [35] who observed that S. aureus is one of the most frequently isolated bacteria in hospital infections after recovering 39 isolates which was second only to P. aeruginosa with 43 isolates. In another study, [36] also recovered only S. aureus isolates from 30 mobile phones sampled. The antibiotics resistance testing showed high levels of resistance to commonly used antibiotics with the resistance ranging from 17% to gentamicin to 100% resistance observed to cloxacillin.…”

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Epidemiology of oxacillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from cell phones of health-care workers in Ekiti State

2016

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The use of mobile phones in the clinical environment by health-care workers has become widespread. A swab of mobile phones of health-care personnel of several hospitals in Ekiti State were examined to evaluate the prevalence of Oxacillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA), the resistance of ORSA to other commonly used antibiotics as well as the multiple resistant patterns of the recovered isolates. A total of 106 samples were screened yielding 100 S. aureus isolates. The antibiotics sensitivity profile to nine commonly used antibiotics revealed high levels of resistance amongst the isolates ranging from 47% resistance to Chloramphenicol to 100% resistance exhibited to cloxacillin with 55% of the isolates showed resistance to oxacillin while all isolates exhibited multiple resistance. Also, all 55 ORSA exhibited 100% resistance to erythromycin and cloxacillin but interestingly were very sensitive (99.9%) to gentamicin. The high recovery rate of bacteria from mobile phones revealed that cell phones may have notable roles in the transmission of multidrug resistant nosocomial pathogens, increasing the risk of cross-contamination posed to immunosuppressed patients by the heath care workers attending to them.

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Study of the role of mobile phones in the transmission of Hospital acquired infections

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Microbial contamination of mobile phones in a health care setting in Alexandria, Egypt

Microbial contamination of mobile phones in a health care setting in Alexandria, Egypt

Microbial contamination of cell phones of nursing department students in Technical Institute of Baqubah, Iraq

Epidemiology of oxacillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from cell phones of health-care workers in Ekiti State

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