Hospital mobile phones 'superbug' scare

Friday, March 6, 2009 - 11:09 in Health & Medicine

Mobile phone handsets belonging to hospital workers are covered in bacteria including the 'superbug,' MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials describes how mobile phones used by healthcare workers may be a source of hospital-acquired infections...

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