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Bacterial contamination of healthcare workers’ mobile phones in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2023 Background Mobile phones are potential reservoirs for pathogens and sources of healthcare-associated infections. More microbes can be found on a mobile phone than on a man's lavatory seat, the sole of a shoe, or a door handle.
Demisu Zenbaba +15 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with both motor and non-motor symptoms. Despite the progressive nature of PD, early diagnosis, tracking the disease’s natural history and measuring the drug response are factors that play a major ...
Konstantinos Kyritsis +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The study aimed to characterize fungal contamination of medical students’ mobile phones, investigate mobile phones’ usage and cleaning habits, identify independent risk factors for fungal contamination, and awareness of mobile phones as a potential route
Eleonora Dubljanin +5 more
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“What do I do with my old mobile phones? I just put them in a drawer”: Attitudes and perspectives towards the disposal of mobile phones in Liverpool, UK [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015 The rapid rise in the use of mobile (cell) phones, combined with their shortening lifespan, due to a high replacement frequency, are posing disposal management challenges at a time when mobile phones are the fastest growing component of Waste Electrical ...
Janet Speake, Leopoul Nchawa Yangke
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Identification of microorganisms on mobile phones of intensive care unit health care workers and medical students in the tertiary hospital [PDF]
Medicinski Glasnik, 2017 Aim To identify and investigate a difference between microorganisms present on intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers’ (HCW, doctors, nurses or medical technicians) and medical students’ mobile phones as well as to investigate a difference between
Ivan Kotris +3 more
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Modelling and assessment of the electric field strength caused by mobile phone to the human head [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016 Background/Aim. Electromagnetic field exposure is the one of the most important physical agents that actively affects live organisms and environment. Active use of mobile phones influences the increase of electromagnetic field radiation. The aim
Buckus Raimondas +3 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2022 Background Digital technologies such as mobile phones have shown potential as vital tools for use in healthcare and related services. However, little has been done to explore its use for prosthetics rehabilitative services, especially in the Acholi sub ...
Walter Onen Yagos +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Advancements in technology and communication have revolutionised the twenty-first century with the introduction of mobile phones and smartphones. These phones are known to be platforms harbouring microbes with recent research shedding light on the ...
Matthew Olsen +11 more
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Involvement of Mobile phones as a source for Nosocomial infections
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021 Background: Mobile phones are communication devices for communication nowadays and have emerged as a need of our life. Mobile phones also act as a reservoir for microorganisms.
Priyanka Shukla +3 more
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Communicare, 2022 This qualitative study examines the role of the mobile phone in negotiating the day-to-day experience of social immobility for young users in a low-income area in a small town in South Africa.
Alette Schoon, Larry Strelitz
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