Prevalence of baterium isolated in cell phones and sthetoscopes of students in a 4th level hospital, Bogota D.C.
Journal Title: Revista Cuarzo - Year 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
NTRODUCTION: Medical devices such as stethoscope, are constantly manipulated in the patient environment. The boom have cell phones today, have become those in an object of common use even for personal health care. Objectives: To identify microorganisms and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern isolated from cell-phones and stethoscopes of medical students undergraduate and postgraduate. METHODOLOGY: were taken by swabbing 77 samples between cell-phones and stethoscopes (43/34) and cultured in blood agar at 37 ° C for 24-36 hours, specifi c tests were performed to determine the microorganism and pattern sensitivity. RESULTS: Of 43 samples in cellphones 92 were mainly coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) (51%), methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) (14%), Escherichia coli (5%), Klebsiella spp (3%) were isolated,Acinetobacter spp (2%), Pseudomonas spp (2%), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (2%). From 34 samples of stethoscopes, 59 microorganisms were found CNS (61%), MSSA (15%), MRSA (5%),Pseudomonas spp (3%), Klebsiella spp (3%), E. coli. (3%),Acinetobacter spp (2%). 25% and 13% of Staphylococcus aereus in stethoscopes and cell-phones were MRSA, Gram negative bacilli from stethoscopes, most showed sensitivity to antibiotics used except for some strains of Klebsiella spp, Acinetobacter spp and Escherichia coli. In cellphones, sensitivity pattern it was more mixed, highlighting that 50% of the strains of Pseudomonas spp were resistant to ceftriaxone and 100% of strains of Acinetobacter spp to β-lactamics tested. CONCLUSIONS: The colonization of pathogens in medical and electronic devices resistant to different families of antibiotics may present a risk of transmission to hospitalized and ambulatory patients when exposed to contact with them.
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Herrera Rodríguez, J. , Muñóz Romero, J. , Botero García, C. , & Méndez Rodríguez, I.
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