The potential role of mobile phones in the spread of bacterial infections

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 628-632

  Akinyemi, Kabir O ^a   Atapu, Audu D ^a   Adetona, Olabisi O ^a   Coker, Akitoye O ^b  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Disease; Mobile phone; Nosocomial; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; COAGULASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC FIGURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STUDENT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYMOLOGY; FOMITE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NIGERIA; RISK FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELLULAR PHONE; COAGULASE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FOMITES; HUMANS; NIGERIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 73349127518     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.556     Document Type: Article

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