Hospital Superbugs Get Mobile Through Mobile Handsets

by Savitha on  January 05, 2009 at 7:20 PM General Health News
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The gel was then placed in an incubator overnight to allow any individual bacteria on the phone to grow into colonies. The coloured spots in the image are the different colonies of bacteria.

"The vast majority of bacteria here will be normally found on the skin and do not cause hospital-acquired infections; however, there may be a few that do," Brady said.

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