The Smart Phone As A Vector

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Bacteria can utilize many different things as vectors in order to promote their transmission. Insects, water, food, coughs and sneezes, sexual contact, and rain are just a few examples. The mobile phone appears to be no exception this rule. As part of BMS1035 Practical and Biomedical Bacteriology, an undergraduate module that I run, I get the students to to imprint their mobile phones onto bacteriological growth media so that we might determine what they might carry. From these results, it seems that the mobile phone doesn’t just remember telephone numbers, but also harbours a history of our personal and physical contacts such as other people, soil, etc.

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  43. Request for permission to use image in a medical malpractice risk management presentation. Will credit blog or photographer or both – please specify.

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  48. I am a nursing student at the University of Iowa. Would it be permissible to use the mobile phone culture image (with attribution to the blog) for my student project for the Des Moines county public health department in Burlington, Iowa? I will be developing a display board and leaflet for the project.

    Thank you.

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  49. Hello,
    I’m writing to request permission to use a few of these images for a risk management education for healthcare professionals. Proper attribution to the blog will be provided.
    Thank you,
    Margaret

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    • Thanks for this Margaret. Apologies for my delayed response, caused by illness. Please feel free to use the images. If you could credit my blog that would be great. Best wishes, Simon

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