Microbial Contamination of Mobile Phones: A Comparative Study

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Abstract
Over the years the use of mobile phones have increased over the years. They are
considered as indispensable devices among the people in professional as well as social life.
However with the increased handling of devices among various settings and simultaneous
contact with various contamination sources like nasal droplets, saliva have made they has
been considered as potential threats for bacterial contaminations. Moreover, it has also led to
increase in the risk of disease transmission. Thus although they have become ubiquitous
among various settings, they are sources of many diseases. Phones have been known as a
useful source of contamination through various sources. Thus, the usefulness of phones and
similar devices have been compared for the potential risk of diseases and their transmission.
In the given article, the micro contamination of mobile phones have been compared among
other findings. Moreover the risk of disease transmission have also been estimated.
Furthermore, the effect of the disease usually spread through handling of mobile phones and
their subsequent effect on the patients have been elaborated.

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Aim and objective of the study:.............................................................................................2
Findings of the second paper by Misgana, Abdissa and Abebe (2014).............................5
Comparison and evaluation of the methodologies and results of the findings of the three
papers...............................................................................................................................10
References........................................................................................................................13

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Aim and objective of the study:
The aim of the study is to determine the microbial contamination in the screen and
other surface of the devices such as touch screen devices and key pad devices. The
rationale behind undertaking this study is that mobile phones are constantly used by
workers in hospitals as well as other work places and makes it an open breeding place for
transmission of microbes as well as nosocomial infection (Chairman and JA 2017).
Consequently, a considerate number of individuals experienced infection because of
microbe’s contamination in the mobile phones. The research was undertaken based on the
hypothesis such as there will be no microbes present on the touch screen of the mobile phone
devices and also on the keyboard of the devices. The objective of the research is following:
 To determine the presence microbes present on the surface of touch mobile
screen
 to determine type of microbes present in the surface of microbes on the
surface of the touch screen mobile and key pad mobile
 To analyses and compare comparison of the two devices in order to obtain
the understanding that which device contains more number of microbes on the
surface of the device.
 To recommend the strategy to reduce the contamination on mobiles and
associated infection.
Findings of the first paper by Mark et al (2015)