Mobile phone technology and hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional surveillance study of bacterial colonization, and patient opinions and behaviours

Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones with nosocomial pathogens?

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Bacterial contamination of anaesthetists' hands by personal mobile phone and fixed phone use in the operating theatre

Hans Christian Jeske, W. Tiefenthaler, M. Hohlrieder et al. · Anaesthesia · 2007 · 157 citations · Full text

Short Phone Call, Occupational Hygiene, Operating Theatre +11

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: psychological impact of hospitalization and isolation in an older adult population

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Geriatrics, Healthcare-associated Infection +7

Methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA): a community-based prevalence survey

L. Abudu, Iain Blair, A.P. Fraise et al. · Epidemiology and Infection · 2001 · 121 citations · Full text

Mrsa Colonization, Mrsa Carriers, Health Sciences +14

Bacterial flora on cell phones of health care providers in a teaching institution

Mir Sadat‐Ali, Ammar K Alomran, Quamar Azam et al. · American Journal of Infection Control · 2010 · 78 citations

Microbial Contamination, Bacterial Flora, Healthcare-associated Infection +8