National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Mobile phone is an extensively used precious integral part of our daily life, increasingly assuming the status of sources of pathogenic organisms for disease transmission. During the present study 150 swab samples were collected from mobile phones of chicken, pork, chevon, fresh and processed fish handlers, and street food venders of Tripura for isolation, identification of public health significant bacteria and its antibiogram. Out of 150 swab sample examined 97.33% and 40% mobile phones were found contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and fungi, respectively. 80% of processed fish handlers mobile phones were highly contaminated with fungi. Mobile phone of pork and processed fish handlers were showed highest and lowest total viable count, respectively. Staphylococcus spp., MRSA, Bacillus cereus, E. coli, Klebsiella spp and Proteus spp. were frequently isolated from all mobile phone users. Among all mobile phone users highest percentage of Staphylococcus spp. (48%) Staphylococcus aureus (32%), Klebsiella spp (20%), Proteus spp. (24%); Bacillus cereus (56%), E. coli (32%), were isolated from the chicken, pork, meat and fish handlers. 23.68% MRSA isolated from the all selected groups of mobile phone handlers. All the isolates were resistant to Amoxycillin, Ampicillin and Oxytetracycline. The present study emphasized that the mobile phones acts as fomites for spreading of pathogenic microbes for disease transmission.
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