Keyboard and Mouse Carrying Disease

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Medizone International, Inc. (OTCBB and OTCQB: MZEI) (http://medizoneint.com)

Researchers in Taiwan found computer keyboards and computer mice harbor pathogens — including Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

However, the researchers suggest few infections can be traced to the computers.

The research team, led by Yen-hsu Chen of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in Taiwan, looked at computer equipment in a 1,600-bed hospital with 282 computers. They found 17.4 percent contamination rate of S. aureus, Acinetobacter spp. or Pseudomonas spp.

Doctors and nurses go from patient to keyboard without washing their hands, said a consultant microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson. That’s quite understandable because you would wash your hands between patients but not between a patient and a keyboard.

The contamination rates of MRSA and A. baumannii in the ward computers were 1.1 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively. No P. aeruginosa was found.

“No clinical correlation of contamination of these computer devices to clinical isolates was found,” Chen said in a statement. “Routine disinfection and even surveillance of these computer devices may not be mandatory in non-outbreak settings.”

The findings are reported in Biomedcentral’s or BMC Infectious Diseases.

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