Bacterial Contamination and Resistance to Commonly Used Antimicrobials of Healthcare Workers' Mobile Phones in Teaching Hospitals, Kerman, Iran| Science Publications

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Gholamreza Sepehri¹  Ehsan Sepehri¹  Nooshin Talebizadeh¹  Touraj- Reza Mir-shekari¹  Ali Mirzazadeh¹ 

关键词: Healthcare workers;    mobile phones;    nosocomial Infections;    antimicrobial resistance;   

DOI  :  10.3844/ajassp.2009.806.810

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Science Publications

【 摘 要 】

Problem Statement: The contamination rates of Health Care Worker's (HCW) mobile phones and resistance to commonly used antimicrobials were evaluated in three teaching hospitals in Kerman, Iran. So, we examined 150 randomly selected HCWs in three teaching hospitals in Kerman, Iran, 2007. For each HCW a sterile swab moistened with sterile water was rotated over the surface of both sides of his/her phone, a second swab for the sampling of the dominant hand. Both swabs were cultured by the routine methodology in use at laboratory. Plates were incubated aerobically at 37

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