Mobile phones are integral component of man’s social life. Mobile phones could constitute health hazards, apart from electromagnetic radiations emitted, these devices could serve as sources of pathogenic and non pathogenic microorganisms as they come in contact with human body parts and other surfaces during usage. The study was conducted to evaluate microbial colonization and multi drug resistance patterns of phones of health care workers in Delta State. One hundred and thirty phones of health care workers were swabbed asceptically, self administered questionnaires were used to collected data from respondents to find out their hygienic altitude towards their phones. Swabs were cultured in bacteriological and mycologic media. Microbial isolates identification and sensitivity tests were done using standard methods. Most of the health care workers phones were contaminated though they admitted cleaning of phones. Bacterial and fungal contamination were 92.31% and 71.54% respectively. Staphylococcus aureus (33.33%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (18.33%) and Escherichia coli (25%) are potential nosocomial pathogens and were more dominant. Geotrichum spp (37.63%), Aspergillus niger (27.96%) and Mucor spp. (21.51%) were prevalent among the fungi species. All bacteria were resistant to ceftazidime, cefuroxime, cefixime and augumentin however sensitive to gentamycin in varied degree. Phones of health care workers carry pathogens which were multidrug resistant so could pose health risk to patients. Measures should be put in place for phones of health care workers to be cleaned always to avoid being a source of pathogenic organisms.
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Mobile Phones, Multi Drug Resistance, Health Care Workers
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