Bacterial ‘Cell’ Phones: Do cell phones carry potential pathogens?
作者： Chiranjay Mukhopadhayay , Kiran Chawla , Bimala Gurung , Indira Bairy , Priya Bhate
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摘要: Cell phones are important companions for professionals especially health care workers (HCWs) better communication in hospital. The present study compared the nature of growth potentially pathogenic bacterial flora on cell hospital and community. 75% from both categories grew at least one organism. HCWs significantly more potential pathogens like MRSA (20%), Acinetobacter species (5%), Pseudomonas (2.5%) as to non HCWs. 97.5% use their phone hospital, 57.5% never cleaned 20% admitted that they did not wash hands before or after attending patients, although majority (77.5%) knows can have harmful colonization act vector nosocomial infections. It is recommended, therefore, should be regularly decontaminated. Moreover, utmost emphasis needs paid hand washing practices among
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