Bacteria found on Mobile Phones

Pune, March 06 : As we knew that, The mobile phones are how important to humans.These have become a necessary part of their bodies. Typically, A man committed to suicide, just because of lost his phone.It was a ridiculous thing in our life.

Already recent studies had found that, The bacteria on the mobile phones is more than toilet seats. According to the studies conducted by scientists from Western nations, some of the smartphones even have deadly drug-resistant bacteria on them.

The astonishing finding by Pune scientists of the government-owned National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) has discovered and identified three new species of microbes on screens of mobile phones.

The laboratory founded by the Department of Biotechnology identified two never-heard-before-bacteria and fungus in the scientific literature.

Yogesh S. Shouche and his team from the Microbial Culture Collection group of the NCCS in Pune collected samples from screens of 27 mobile phones. The team then isolated 515 different bacterial types and 28 different fungi.



Praveen Rahi, a co-investigator for the work said that the microbes identified are human-friendly and flourished on human bodies.

Sterilized cotton swabs and sterile saline solution were used to wipe these microbes from the surface. These were then grown at 30 degrees centigrade.

The team came across three new species of organisms among which two bacteria were named lysinbacillus telephonicus and microbacterium telephonicum and a new species of fungi was named pyrenochaeta telephoni.

The finding claimed that the situation is not bad in India even though there are more mobile phones than toilets in India.

William DePaolo, an assistant professor in the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Southern California, had conducted a study in 2015.

According to this study, while the toilet seats usually contained three different types of bacteria, the mobile phones on an average housed some ten to 12 various types of fungi and bacteria.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published an alarming finding that 12 families of microbes were winning the war against anti-biotics and humanity urgently needed to discover new chemicals to kill these superbugs.