Comparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacterial Communities on Cell Phones Belonging to Health Care Workers and Non-Health Care Workers

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dc.contributor.advisorEric Freundt
dc.contributor.authorMatt Guillemette, Zachary Rivera
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-06T20:04:04Z
dc.date.available2018-03-06T20:04:04Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionRecommended Citation: Guillemette , Matt , and Zachary Rivera. “Comparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacterial Communities on Cell Phones Belonging to Health Care Workers and Non-Health Care Workers.” Acta Spartae, 2016. https://doi.org/10.48497/02RR-PP45.
dc.description.abstractThe frequent use of cell phones inside of health care facilities produces a risk of contamination of the phones with potentially pathogenic bacteria. The elevated use of antibiotics within these health care facilities may also contribute to heightened levels of antibiotic resistant strains on these devices. To assess this, bacterial samples were collected from health care workers’ and non-health care workers’ cell phones. The bacterial isolates were assessed for antibiotic resistance via the Kirby-Bauer method. Eleven out of nineteen of the bacterial isolates from the health care workers cell phones displayed resistance to at least one antibiotic. According to our study, the lower amount of resistance of the bacteria isolated from the health care worker samples compared to the non-health care worker samples leads us to conclude that there is not a higher prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria on health care workers’ phones.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGuillemette , Matt , and Zachary Rivera. “Comparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacterial Communities on Cell Phones Belonging to Health Care Workers and Non-Health Care Workers.” Acta Spartae, 2016. https://doi.org/10.48497/02RR-PP45.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.48497/02rr-pp45
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/316
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCollege of Natural and Health Sciences, The University of Tampaen_US
dc.subjectCell phonesen_US
dc.subjectHealth care workersen_US
dc.subjectBacteriaen_US
dc.subjectAntibioticsen_US
dc.subjectDepartment of Biologyen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCESen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES::Biologyen_US
dc.titleComparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacterial Communities on Cell Phones Belonging to Health Care Workers and Non-Health Care Workersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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