Prevalence of antibacterial resistant bacterial contaminants from mobile phones of hospital inpatients

Mobile phones contaminated with bacteria may act as fomites. Antibiotic resistant bacterial contamination of mobile phones of inpatients was studied. One hundred and six samples were collected from mobile phones of patients admitted in various hospitals in Jazan province of Saudi Arabia. Eighty-nine (83.9%) out of 106 mobile phones were found to be contaminated with bacteria. Fifty-two (49.0%) coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, 12 (11.3%) Staphylococcus aureus, 7 (6.6%) Enterobacter cloacae, 3 (2.83%) Pseudomonas stutzeri, 3 (2.83%) Sphingomonas paucimobilis, 2 (1.8%) Enterococcus faecalis and 10 (9.4%) aerobic spore bearers were isolated. All the isolated bacteria were found to be resistant to various antibiotics. Hence, regular disinfection of mobile phones of hospital inpatients is advised.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Libyan Journal of Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3402/ljm.v9.25451PMID 25292217PMCID 4189012
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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