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Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
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Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
I'm not a scientist, but this paper found "high level bacterial contamination" of cell phones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466825/ Anecdotally, we were recently in the NICU of a children's hospital and they required washing our hands and cleaning our cell phones before entering. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that they would have a reason for doing so.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_flora (there are 1000 species of bacteria from 19 phyla normally inhabiting healthy skin)
Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
According to a KUL researcher, between 20 to 100 species of bacteria are living on any smartphone (she analysed 5 phones). Almost all species are skin bacteria, but a strand of stafylococcus aureus could cause problems such as sepsis, and wound infections.
Undoutedly, you have read ample smartphone reviews with complaints of smears being too visible on the casings or screens.
Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a scientist, but this paper found "high level bacterial contamination" of cell phones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466825/ Anecdotally, we were recently in the NICU of a children's hospital and they required washing our hands and cleaning our cell phones before entering. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that they would have a reason for doing so.
Does the article address why cell phones wouldn't be an extension of the skin flora[1], in terms of normally having good bacteria? Or is there something about cell phones that kills off good bacteria, but not bad? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_flora (there are 1000 species of bacteria from 19 phyla normally inhabiting healthy skin)
Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
The whole world is teeming with bacteria, most of it is harmless.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
I'm not a scientist, but this paper found "high level bacterial contamination" of cell phones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466825/ Anecdotally, we were recently in the NICU of a children's hospital and they required washing our hands and cleaning our cell phones before entering. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that they would have a reason for doing so.
Being around people with compromised immune systems requires different standards, but day to day, it doesn't seem to matter.