Bacterial carriage of computer keyboards in veterinary practices in Scotland

摘要

STUDIES in human hospitals have shown that objects such as door handles and computer keyboards can act as sources of contamination with bacteria such as meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Campylobacter (Bures and others 2000, Kassemand others 2007). The aim of this study was to investigate whether bacteria were present on keyboards used in consulting rooms in veterinary practices in the UK, and to identify whether these keyboards could be a source of pathogenic bacteria that couldaffect animals or human beings.