Cell Phones - Homes for Microbes !
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Introduction: Mobile phones are in close contact with body serving transportation of bacteria in hospital settings. Further, sharing of mobile phones among health care workers & non Health care workers distinctly facilitate the spread of potentially pathogenic bacteria to the community. Aims & Objective: To study the bacterial flora present on cell phones of II & III MBBS students & to compare it with that found oncell phones of I MBBS students in terms of antibiotic resistance. Material & Methods: Swabs from mobile phones of 100 I st MBBS & 100 II& III MBBS students were taken & processed by standard bacteriological technique. Antibiotic susceptibility done by Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion technique. Result: Mobile phones of 15 I MBBS students were contaminated among which 13% were staphylococcus aureus. Whereas mobile phones of 30 II & III MBBS students were contaminated. Among these 30 isolates, 9 were staphylococcus aureus of which 2 were MRSA sensitive to vancomycin & linezolid,17coagulase negative staphylococcus, 2 pseudomonas aeruginosa , 1E.coli & 1enterobacter species. Conclusion: To prevent spread of potential pathogens through mobile phones in hospital, hand hygiene ,routine decontamination of mobile phones & avoiding sharing of phones should be encouraged.
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