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Healthcare Workers’ Mobile Phones as a Possible Vehicle of Nosocomial Pathogens and the Role of Different Disinfectants in their Decontamination

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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prevention of hospital infections

Abstract

Background: As Mobile Phones (MPs) aren't cleaned routinely and have been touched during patient's examination, they may become contaminated with hospital pathogens. Objectives: Screen MPs of Health care workers (HCWs) for pathogens and verify the effect of disinfectants in their decontamination. Methods: A questionnaire was submitted by 160 HCWs in Tanta University Hospitals. Samples were taken from their MPs and subjected to pour plate counting before and after disinfection. Standard identification and antibiotic susceptibility of isolates were done. Results: Colony count was greater in MPs used while caring for patients or inside restroom, and was less in regularly cleaned MPs. All tested disinfectants reduced the colony count significantly. Pathogens were isolated from 84.38% of samples and 36.25% of them were Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs). Conclusion: Using MPs at critical care areas and restroom may contribute to their contamination with pathogens. Regular disinfection of MPs can reduce this contamination.

Authors

First Name

Rana

Last Name

Elgabeery

MiddleName

Ehab

Affiliation

Demonstrator of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt

Email

rana.ehab@med.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

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Volume

30

Article Issue

3

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26926

Issue Date

2021-07-01

Receive Date

2021-03-13

Publish Date

2021-07-11

Page Start

29

Page End

36

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

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EJMM_Volume 30_Issue 3_Pages 29-36.pdf

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New and original researches in the field of Microbiology.

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2,038

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/

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23 Jan 2023