Contamination by antimicrobial-resistant enterobacteria isolated from cell phones and hands in a veterinary hospital

Abstract Hospital infections are of great relevance in human and animal health, fomites important the spread pathogens hospital units. The aim this study was to investigate frequency enterobacteria operating room a veterinary hospital, potential cross-contamination samples, characterise susceptibility profile isolates antimicrobials. Sixty-five samples were collected from five different surgical procedures. These came hands cell phones team pet owners, tables, patients. Species detection performed through polymerase chain reaction, genetic diversity by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), antimicrobials an antibiogram. Escherichia coli Proteus mirabilis obtained eight anaesthesiologist, owner, surgeon; surgeon's, nurse's anaesthesiologist's phones, two tables. Furthermore, PFGE showed high among isolates, which multidrug resistance. identification multidrug-resistant E. P. on is major concern and, although no direct correlation found, isolation these bacteria inside clean area shows possibility nosocomial transmission susceptible