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OJVRTM
Online Journal of
Veterinary Research©
Volume 24(8): 483-489, 2020.
Bacteria isolated from medical
staff mobile phones in a Manchester (UK) hospital.
Dunya Talib Al-Rawdhan
Department of Biology, College of
Science, University of Wasit, Iraq. Work done at The University Hospital of South Manchester United
Kingdom.
ABSTRACT
Al-Rawdhan DT., Bacteria isolated from
medical staff mobile phones in a Manchester UK hospital, Onl
J Vet Res., 24(8): 483-489,
2020. Author reports bacteria
isolated from mobile phones of hospital staff and factors that could lead to
contamination. Mobile phones of 37 health care staff of The University Hospital
of South Manchester (UHSM) UK were swabbed and cultured by disk diffusion for extended
spectrum beta lactamase bacteria (ESBL), Staphylococcus
saprophyticus and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). S. saprophyticus
was resistant to novobiocin and S. aureus to cefoxitin. All samples were
contaminated of which 28% had 1 isolate, 54% had 2 and 16% had 3 isolates. The
bacteria were normal skin flora but 25% were coagulase negative staphylococci and 18% methicillin
sensitive staphylococcus aureus. This
survey suggests that in this case, mobile phones could be a reservoir and
vehicle for transmission of MRSA between healthcare workers and patients. Frequent
antiseptic cleaning of mobile phones could reduce infections in hospitals.
KEY-WORDS; Mobile phones, gram positive bacteria, hospital staff.
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