Types of bacteria and bacterial cultures isolated from mobile phones of medical and health staffs at al-Kindy teaching hospital in Baghdad city

Abstract EN

Background: Cell phones are important source of the microbial transmission as human pathogens also may be cause increased risk for incidence of fungal or bacterial infections as well as natural microbiota of human skin (Shahaby, 2012) .

Objective :aim of this study was determine the existence and type of bacteria isolated from the mobile phone which used by medical and health hospital staff, Collected swabs from (150) mobile phone of mediacl and health staffs working at Al-kindy teaching hospital during the period from October - 2016 to February 2017, all swab inoculated on macConkey and blood agar and incubated at 37°C for ( 24 - 48 ) hours, then the bacterial growth was diagnosis and identified by routine standard of bacteriological technique as well as IMVIC test and Api system .

Result : The positive culture was (52 %) which is more than negative culture(48%).

But higher positive culture found in mobile of technician, followed by doctors , as well as highest number and percentage of bacterial contaminated on phone of medical and health staffs were coagulase-negative staphylococci (25.6%), followed by Bacillus spp (21.7%) , E.coli (16.6%), Staph.aureus (15.5%) , and Klebsiella sp (9%), mixed bacterial cultures found more than single bacterial cultures as .the highest single culture isolated from mobile of nurses while the highest mixed bacterial cultures isolated from mobile of both nurses and Workers.

The single bacterial cultures found at higher rate among age groups (31-40) years, where mixed bacterial cultures were the highest at age groups (25-30) years.

But the female showed higher rate of both single and mixed bacterial cultures compares to males.

The most common bacteria isolated from mobiles of doctors was CONs bacteria (44.4 %) as do with nurses , technician , workers and Pharmacists while the second most prevalent bacteria was Bacillus spp.

isolated from mobiles of doctors, nurses, technicians, workers and Pharmacists.

Conclusion: The positive bacterial culture isolated at higher rate from mobile of technicians and doctors .Coagulase-negative staphylococci and Bacillus spp.

were the predominant contaminated bacteria isolated from medical staffs and health workers.