Prevalence of Methicilin –Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Mobile Phone of Healthcare Workers in Baghdad Teaching Hospital
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
All of the tested healthcare workers and patients mobile phones in ICU, Dialysis unit, Operation room and Laboratory hospital in Baghdad teaching hospital were contaminated 100% : 54% were Gram positive and 56% were Gram negative with 9 bacterial isolates included 4 Gram positive bacteria :MRSA S.aureus, CoNS coagulase negative staphylococci, Streptococcus viridans and Bacillus spp ),while Gram negative bacteria: E.coli, Pseudomonas aerogenosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, Salmonella spp , and Proteus spp). The most prevalent organism was found to be MRSA S.aureus from workers ,nurses and patients mobile phone at (10%,8%.2%) respectively except doctor mobile phone were not contaminated by MRSA ,while highest bacterial contaminate of Gram negative bacteria Klebsiella spp followed by E.coli in all health workers and patients mobile phones at (20%,17%) respectively, while the low percentage rate in Salmonella spp at 3% in workers and patients mobile phone, in this study 35% of screened mobile phones of operation room healthcare workers showed bacterial contamination because of their poor health status in addition to the use of intensive equipment like catheters and canola. Samples were cultured and the resulting isolates were identified and subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility tests by standard procedures using disc diffusion method. The resistance rates to commonly used antimicrobials in isolated bacteria from mobile phones varied from 100% for Methecillin to 14% for Refamin.
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Montaha A. AL-Safaar
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