Microbial load of touch screen mobile phones used by university students and healthcare staff
العناوين الأخرى
الحمل الميكروبي لشاشات الهواتف النقالة بنظام اللمس و المستخدمة من قبل طلبة الجامعة و العاملين في المجال الصحي
المؤلفون المشاركون
Hassunah, Islam
Maruf, Ala
al-Shair, Ghadir
Abu Ghunaymah, Iman
al-Manamah, Abd al-Rauf Ali
المصدر
Journal of the Arab American University
العدد
المجلد 1، العدد 1 (30 إبريل/نيسان 2015)، ص ص. 1-21، 21ص.
الناشر
الجامعة العربية الأمريكية عمادة البحث العلمي
تاريخ النشر
2015-04-30
دولة النشر
فلسطين (الضفة الغربية)
عدد الصفحات
21
التخصصات الرئيسية
تكنولوجيا المعلومات وعلم الحاسوب
الملخص EN
Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our lives.
Though they offer plenty of advantages, they are prolific breeding grounds for infectious pathogens in communities and hospitals.
The present study seeks to identify the counts and types of bacteria contaminating touch screen mobile phones (TSMP) used by students of the Islamic University-Gaza (IUG) and healthcare workers (HCWs) at Al-Shifa Hospital.
It also tries to investigate the antimicrobial resistance profiles.
A cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2013 to April 2014.
Two hundred and fifty swab samples were collected: 100 IUG female students, 100 IUG male students and 50 from HCWs.
Along with the questionnaire, swabs moistened with sterile normal saline were used to swab an area of 3cm2 over TSMP.
Samples were cultured and processed by standard Microbiological procedures.
The overall percentage of positive cultures was 71.6%.
Staphylococcus aureus was the most predominant isolate (with 27%).
HCWs results revealed higher positive cultures and counts of bacteria than those for IUG samples.
The most common isolate in HCWs was S.
aureus, but Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus (CNS) was particularly found in IUG students.
Male phones exhibited higher positive culture and bacterial count than those for females at the target university.
Meanwhile, S.
aureus was the most common isolate in male phones compared to CNS in female phones.
The data from the questionnaire showed that wipes were the most efficient method used by respondents to clean TSMP.
The use of surface guards with rough type reduced contamination and bacterial counts.
Antimicrobial susceptibility results of S.
aureus in HCWs showed that 28.3% were methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and 73.6% were penicillin-resistant.
Tested mobile phones were contaminated with potential pathogen, including MRSA.
Therefore, an awareness campaign should be launched to educate the public and HCWs on the health hazards associated with improper use of mobile phones.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
al-Manamah, Abd al-Rauf Ali& Hassunah, Islam& Maruf, Ala& al-Shair, Ghadir& Abu Ghunaymah, Iman. 2015. Microbial load of touch screen mobile phones used by university students and healthcare staff. Journal of the Arab American University،Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-21.
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نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
al-Manamah, Abd al-Rauf Ali…[et al.]. Microbial load of touch screen mobile phones used by university students and healthcare staff. Journal of the Arab American University Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 2015), pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-733213
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
al-Manamah, Abd al-Rauf Ali& Hassunah, Islam& Maruf, Ala& al-Shair, Ghadir& Abu Ghunaymah, Iman. Microbial load of touch screen mobile phones used by university students and healthcare staff. Journal of the Arab American University. 2015. Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-733213
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references : p. 14-20
رقم السجل
BIM-733213
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
أضخم قاعدة بيانات عربية للاستشهادات المرجعية للمجلات العلمية المحكمة الصادرة في العالم العربي
تقوم هذه الخدمة بالتحقق من التشابه أو الانتحال في الأبحاث والمقالات العلمية والأطروحات الجامعية والكتب والأبحاث باللغة العربية، وتحديد درجة التشابه أو أصالة الأعمال البحثية وحماية ملكيتها الفكرية. تعرف اكثر