3. Results
The following bacteria were isolated:
Bacillus species, Escherichia coli, Coagulase positive Staphylococcus, Coagulase negative Staphylococcus,
Streptococcus species and Diptheroids. The
following fungi/moulds were isolated: Trychophyton
species, Aspergilus species and Candida albicans as
reported in table 1.
Bacillus species (84%) were the most
isolated bacteria in both keyboards and mice as
presented in table 1. Only two bacterial species
(Bacillus species and Coagulase positive
Stphylococcus) were isolated from the single user
computers (as presented in table 3) as against six
isolated from multiple user computers as presented in
table 2. All fungi mentioned above were isolated in
equal percentages from public user computers.
Trychophyton species was isolated from all single
user keyboards and mice.