“…The growing number of reports regarding bacterial contamination of MPs is contradicted by a paucity of advice provided to both healthcare workers and patients on the use and disinfection of MPs, particularly in hospitals. The development of research investigating MPs as vehicles of pathogens and their correlation with user habits could be useful to the World Health Organization (WHO) and to government agencies to increase public awareness and to formulate education material on MPs hygiene [ 3 ].…”
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“…1 ). These habits could potentially reduce or nullify the effect of hand hygiene procedures, since previously decontaminated hands may become contaminated again by microorganisms present on the device [ 3 ]. Fig.…”
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“…The Covid-19 pandemic has strongly underlined the critical importance of hygiene practices to counteract the spread of pathogens: it has highlighted once again that a public health concern is not merely a medical problem, as it affects society as a whole [ 5 ]. The actual increased societal awareness has led major MPs companies such as Apple, Samsung, and Google to release guidances for proper MPs disinfection [ 3 ] while CDCs recently published advices for cleaning and disinfecting high touch surfaces such as MPs at home; according to CDCs, when no producer's guidance is available, alcohol-based wipes or sprays containing at least 70% alcohol should be used to sanitize electronic devices ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html ; updated May 27, 2020). In light of Covid-19 pandemic, such procedures could be implemented also in the community, as a preventive measure to reduce the spread of the virus as well as other pathogens.…”
“…The growing number of reports regarding bacterial contamination of MPs is contradicted by a paucity of advice provided to both healthcare workers and patients on the use and disinfection of MPs, particularly in hospitals. The development of research investigating MPs as vehicles of pathogens and their correlation with user habits could be useful to the World Health Organization (WHO) and to government agencies to increase public awareness and to formulate education material on MPs hygiene [ 3 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…1 ). These habits could potentially reduce or nullify the effect of hand hygiene procedures, since previously decontaminated hands may become contaminated again by microorganisms present on the device [ 3 ]. Fig.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The Covid-19 pandemic has strongly underlined the critical importance of hygiene practices to counteract the spread of pathogens: it has highlighted once again that a public health concern is not merely a medical problem, as it affects society as a whole [ 5 ]. The actual increased societal awareness has led major MPs companies such as Apple, Samsung, and Google to release guidances for proper MPs disinfection [ 3 ] while CDCs recently published advices for cleaning and disinfecting high touch surfaces such as MPs at home; according to CDCs, when no producer's guidance is available, alcohol-based wipes or sprays containing at least 70% alcohol should be used to sanitize electronic devices ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html ; updated May 27, 2020). In light of Covid-19 pandemic, such procedures could be implemented also in the community, as a preventive measure to reduce the spread of the virus as well as other pathogens.…”
“…It has been shown that mobile phones may serve as reservoir of MDR bacteria like ESBL, MRSA, and VRE and even they serve as a reservoir for viruses like COVID-19 which could easily be transmitted from MPs to the healthcare workers hands, therefore facilitating the transmission from one patient to another in different hospital settings. 3,[9][10][11] There are very few published data on mobile phones of HCWs in Ethiopia but ESBL focused information is scarce. 12,13 Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the rate of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria found on mobile phones of HCWs and to assess antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and associated factors.…”
Background: Mobile phones are widely used in hospital settings for different purposes. Mobile phones of healthcare workers (HCWs) could be colonized or harbor extendedspectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing gram-negative bacteria and may act as source of infectious agents. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacteria on mobile phones of healthcare workers, to assess their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and associated factors. Methods: A laboratory-based cross-sectional study was conducted involving a total of 572 samples by rubbing swabs of the front screen, back, keypad, and metallic surfaces of mobile phones of healthcare workers using simple random sampling technique. All specimens were screened for ESBL using ESBL CHROME agar and confirmed using double-disk diffusion test (DDDT). Antibiotic susceptibility testing was done by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion technique on Mueller-Hinton agar. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25, odds ratio and p-value was calculated to determine the association among variables. Results: Overall, the number of mobile phones contaminated by gram-negative bacteria was 454 out of 572 (79.4%). Female sex (OR 0.651, p-value=0.039) and service year (OR 0.468, p-value=0.038) of healthcare workers were found to be the most significant factors associated with healthcare professionals' mobile phone and bacterial contamination. Nine percent of the isolates were ESBL-producers. K. pneumoniae (27%) was the dominant ESBLproducing isolate followed by Acinetobacter spp. (14.5%) and E.coli (14.5%). ESBL-producers were highly resistant to ampicillin (95.8%), piperacillin (83.3%), cotrimoxazole (70.8%), and chloramphenicol (54.2%), but highly sensitive to meropenem (87.5%), amikacin (85.4%), and piperacillin-tazobactam (81.2%). Conclusion: ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria were isolated from 8.3% of HCWs' mobile phones. As high as 79.4% of the isolates were multidrug resistant. Mobile phones can lead to bacterial cross-contamination and could be a source of nosocomial infections.
Nowadays, COVID-19 is in pandemic stage, and concerns about the infection of children are on the rise. At first, it has been believed that children are not at risk while some evidences have shown that the risk of infection is lower in children than adults. The COVID-19 children indicated milder symptoms including cough, fever, sore throat, myalgia sneezing, and fatigue than COVID-19 adults. Lymphopenia, which is prevalent in adult cases, has not been reported in pediatric patients. The COVID-19 can also occur in neonates although vertical transmission from mothers to fetuses during pregnancy is rare. Overall, the outcome is better in children than adults. Thus far, there has been neither specific treatment for eradicating the infection nor any preventative vaccine for COVID-19, Preventive measures such as frequent hand washing, social distancing and wearing face mask are the best ways.
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