Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria
Currency is proved as a vector, vehicle or as a fomite for the transmission of various diseases and spreading the disease from one to another. Currency’s condition depends upon the people varying health, hygiene and living standards and also on the environmental and storage factors of the money. D...
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Jinnah University for Women
2014-07-01
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| author | Beenish Raees Amna Shafiq Shazia Tabassum Hakim Sayyada Ghufrana Nadeem |
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| description | Currency is proved as a vector, vehicle or as a fomite for the transmission of various diseases and spreading the disease from one to another. Currency’s condition depends upon the people varying health, hygiene and living standards and also on the environmental and storage factors of the money. Due to this, money carry potential pathogenic organisms and these organisms became the reason of illness of the people who handled or receive them from other. The aim of the study is to isolate and to identify the organisms present on the currency. Swab samples collected from the paper currency of different places i.e. market place, food vendor, butcher shop and green grocery shop and subjected for the bacteriological analysis. In the present study Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas spp, Staphylococcus aureus were observed in high percentage and Streptococcus pneumonia, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella spp, Bacillus spp in lower percentage. It is concluded from the study that these organisms are part of our environment, and currency act as a transmitting vehicle of these organism which further became the source of different infectious diseases so these must be handled with great care so as to reduce the risk of disease transmission. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-992334aa5981452791cde6a0f0e9d7762022-12-21T18:00:27ZengJinnah University for WomenRADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Science2305-87222521-85732014-07-015219Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic BacteriaBeenish Raees0Amna Shafiq1Shazia Tabassum Hakim2Sayyada Ghufrana Nadeem3Jinnah University for Women, KarachiJinnah University for Women, KarachiJinnah University for Women, KarachiJinnah University for Women, KarachiCurrency is proved as a vector, vehicle or as a fomite for the transmission of various diseases and spreading the disease from one to another. Currency’s condition depends upon the people varying health, hygiene and living standards and also on the environmental and storage factors of the money. Due to this, money carry potential pathogenic organisms and these organisms became the reason of illness of the people who handled or receive them from other. The aim of the study is to isolate and to identify the organisms present on the currency. Swab samples collected from the paper currency of different places i.e. market place, food vendor, butcher shop and green grocery shop and subjected for the bacteriological analysis. In the present study Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas spp, Staphylococcus aureus were observed in high percentage and Streptococcus pneumonia, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella spp, Bacillus spp in lower percentage. It is concluded from the study that these organisms are part of our environment, and currency act as a transmitting vehicle of these organism which further became the source of different infectious diseases so these must be handled with great care so as to reduce the risk of disease transmission.http://jbas.juw.edu.pk/index.php/JBAS/article/view/19Paper currencyContaminationMarket placesPathogenic microorganisms |
| spellingShingle | Beenish Raees Amna Shafiq Shazia Tabassum Hakim Sayyada Ghufrana Nadeem Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria RADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Science Paper currency Contamination Market places Pathogenic microorganisms |
| title | Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria |
| title_full | Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria |
| title_fullStr | Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria |
| title_short | Paper Currency: A Potential Fomite for Pathogenic Bacteria |
| title_sort | paper currency a potential fomite for pathogenic bacteria |
| topic | Paper currency Contamination Market places Pathogenic microorganisms |
| url | http://jbas.juw.edu.pk/index.php/JBAS/article/view/19 |
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