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Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran

Microorganisms live almost everywhere, they are even present on inanimate objects such as Mobile phones, as a result contaminates our body. The main purpose of this study was tantamount to compare microbial contamination of keypad and touch screen mobile cell phones between hospital and non-hospital...

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Autores principales: Dorost, Amin, Safari, Yayha, Akhlaghi, Maliheh, Soleimani, Marzieh, Yoosefpour, Nasrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30105279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.07.041
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author Dorost, Amin
Safari, Yayha
Akhlaghi, Maliheh
Soleimani, Marzieh
Yoosefpour, Nasrin
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Akhlaghi, Maliheh
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Yoosefpour, Nasrin
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description Microorganisms live almost everywhere, they are even present on inanimate objects such as Mobile phones, as a result contaminates our body. The main purpose of this study was tantamount to compare microbial contamination of keypad and touch screen mobile cell phones between hospital and non-hospital staffs. Samples were collected from 456 cell phones of hospital and non-hospital. Microbial swab samples were taken from 1 cm(2) of surface from each cell phone, and incubated on Brain Heart Infusion agar media at 37.5 °C for 24 h. Isolated microorganisms were grown aerobically on 55% defibrinated Sheep Blood and eosin methylene blue agar media at 37.5 °C for 48 h. In present study the antibiotic microorganism-resistant could not be observed. Overall, 456 cell phones were collected: 240 (52.63%) from hospital staff (nurses), 216 (47.36%) from non-hospital staff (health care worker outside the hospital). The result indicates that the bacterial contamination of phones used by all of different investigated groups was lower in touch screen devices than keypad devices and the contamination was found more in hospital staff cellphone than non-hospital staff׳s cell device. Woman׳s cell also has a few colonies rather than man׳s cell phones. The dominant microorganisms in the hospital staff were, Enterobacteriaceae, Bacillus species, especially Gram-positive bacteria sporulated and staphylococcal negative coagulase, respectively. Cell phones could be a serious threat to the spread of cross-infection in hospitals, therefore development of hand hygiene and cell phone cleaning guidelines is needed regarding public cell phone use.
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spelling pubmed-60862062018-08-13 Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran Dorost, Amin Safari, Yayha Akhlaghi, Maliheh Soleimani, Marzieh Yoosefpour, Nasrin Data Brief Economics, Econometrics and Finance Microorganisms live almost everywhere, they are even present on inanimate objects such as Mobile phones, as a result contaminates our body. The main purpose of this study was tantamount to compare microbial contamination of keypad and touch screen mobile cell phones between hospital and non-hospital staffs. Samples were collected from 456 cell phones of hospital and non-hospital. Microbial swab samples were taken from 1 cm(2) of surface from each cell phone, and incubated on Brain Heart Infusion agar media at 37.5 °C for 24 h. Isolated microorganisms were grown aerobically on 55% defibrinated Sheep Blood and eosin methylene blue agar media at 37.5 °C for 48 h. In present study the antibiotic microorganism-resistant could not be observed. Overall, 456 cell phones were collected: 240 (52.63%) from hospital staff (nurses), 216 (47.36%) from non-hospital staff (health care worker outside the hospital). The result indicates that the bacterial contamination of phones used by all of different investigated groups was lower in touch screen devices than keypad devices and the contamination was found more in hospital staff cellphone than non-hospital staff׳s cell device. Woman׳s cell also has a few colonies rather than man׳s cell phones. The dominant microorganisms in the hospital staff were, Enterobacteriaceae, Bacillus species, especially Gram-positive bacteria sporulated and staphylococcal negative coagulase, respectively. Cell phones could be a serious threat to the spread of cross-infection in hospitals, therefore development of hand hygiene and cell phone cleaning guidelines is needed regarding public cell phone use. Elsevier 2018-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6086206/ /pubmed/30105279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.07.041 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Dorost, Amin
Safari, Yayha
Akhlaghi, Maliheh
Soleimani, Marzieh
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Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title_full Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title_fullStr Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title_full_unstemmed Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title_short Microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – A case study: Iran
title_sort microbial contamination data of keypad and touch screen of cell phones among hospital and non-hospital staffs – a case study: iran
topic Economics, Econometrics and Finance
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30105279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.07.041
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