Corrigendum to “Contamination of healthcare workers' mobile phones by epidemic viruses” [Clin Microbiol Infect (2016) 456.e1–456.e6]

J . Clin . Microbiol . Santini

Bacterial contamination of mobile phones of health care workers.

The microbiological pattern of early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) is different from late onset sepsis and is associated with several peri-natal risk factors. In view of the high mortality associated with this condition septic screening is carried out and empirical treatment with antibiotics started in the presence of two or more of these risk factors, resulting in a large number of babies recei...

Study of bacterial flora associated with mobile phones of healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers

Background and Objectives Despite improvements in modern diagnosis and therapies, hospital acquired infections remain a leading problem of global health systems. Healthcare workers mobile phones is a reservoir for potential pathogens. Despite the high possibility of being contaminated, mobile phones are rarely clean and are often touched during or after examination of patients and handling of s...

Epidemic Modeling using Mobile Phones

Infectious diseases are famous for their potential to turn into epidemics if the appropriate measures are not taken early enough, and the best strategy to counter epidemics is to rely on the early detection and identification of the infectious agents involved to take appropriate measures. In our work we want to investigate if it is possible to build disease spreading models using sensory data g...

Mobile phone microbial contamination among neonatal unit healthcare workers.

into the fabric. Cultures of the pocket, sleeve cuff, thigh, and wrist were taken before the scrub attire was donned and at the end of the day after patient care. The researchers found that, at the end of an 8-hour work day, wearing the antimicrobial scrub attire did not decrease bacterial or antibiotic-resistant microbial contamination of the HCWs’ scrub attire. In another study of silver impr...