Can Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Occur In Automated Teller Machines In Ilorin Metropolis?
| dc.contributor.author | Opasola O.A; Iyanda Y.A.; Sawyerr H.O; Adewoye S.O; AbdulRahman H; Dauda K. A. and Onifade I. A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-02T21:09:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-02T21:09:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-12-23 | |
| dc.description | Bank Automated Teller Machines are the essential requirements of our social life. They are frequently localized in city centers, trade areas, and around the hospitals. Hundreds of people whose socio-economic levels and hygienic status are quite different with each other use ATMs daily. Customers contact with their hand the surfaces of keypad and/or screen of these devices (Tekerekoğlu et al., 2013). The ATM is likely to be contaminated with various microorganisms due to their vast contact by multiple users. There is no restriction as to who has access to the facility and no guideline to ensure hygienic usage. But like all surfaces microbial colonization of these metallic keypads are eminent, particularly when there are no proper cleaning regimens in place for most of these facilities (Stanley et al., 2014). The hygiene of environmental surfaces from shopping, ATM machines, telephones and computers and miscellaneous sites play a major role in spreading serious infections caused by bacteria that have become resistant to commonly used antibiotics and has become a major global healthcare problem in the 21st century (Alanis, 2005). | |
| dc.description.abstract | The rise of multiple resistance bacteria among the pathogenic bacterial community is becoming a serious threat to public health most especially those contaminating environmental surfaces like the surface of Automated Teller Machine (ATM). This study was carried out in other to evaluate the prevalence of microbial contamination with its antibiotic resistance on automated teller machine and to elucidate its implications on the users of ATM. Twelve samples were collected from different ATM centers including the ATM at Kwara State General Hospital, Al-Hiqma University and the only ATM located around the busy part of Garin Alimi along Asa dam, Ilorin. Based on standard microbiological methods, the distribution of these organisms shows that 28.6% of the isolated organisms were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 11.9% were Proteus vulgaris, 38.1% were Morganella morgani, 19.0% were Klebsiella edwardsii, and 2.4% were Proteus mirabilis. Antibiotic susceptibility test revealed that all the isolated organisms (100%) were resistance to septrin and 80% of all the organisms were resistance to chloramphenicol, amoxacillin, augmentin and Pefloxacin. From this study, it can be concluded that there is heavy bacterial contamination of ATM surfaces with bacteria that are resistant to commonly used antibiotics in human medicine, therefore, there is urgent need for frequent disinfection of ATM machines and its accessories along with periodical microbiological surveillance. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Opasola et al. Int. J. Innovative Biochem. & Microbio. Res. 5 (4):18-24, 2017 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2354-2934 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/3870 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | SEAHI PUBLICATIONS: International Journal of Innovative Biochemistry & Microbiology Research | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 5 (4),; 18-24 | |
| dc.title | Can Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Occur In Automated Teller Machines In Ilorin Metropolis? | |
| dc.type | Article |