Bacterial Contamination Of Sudanese Paper Currency

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علوم بحتة وطبيعية

الملخص

The objective of the present study was to isolate and identifybacterial contaminants of some Sudanese paper currency notes. Thisstudy was conducted in Khartoum State in the period from May toOctober 2005.Sixty paper bills of five different denominations (100, 200, 500,1000 and 2000 SD) were collected randomly from different sourcesincluding bus drivers, groceries, hospital pharmacies, butchers, cafeteriasand medical laboratories. Each bill was preserved in sterile plastic filebag and transported to the microbiology lab for bacteriologicalexaminations.The study revealed that the frequency of bacterial isolation fromdifferent samples was 24.5 % for hospital pharmacies, 21.6 % formedical diagnostic lab., 17.6 % for bus drivers, 13.7 % for butchers, 11.8% for groceries and 10.8 % for cafeterias. The rate of bacterial isolationfrom different denominations were 34.3 %, 31.4 %, 14.7 %, 13.7 % and5.9 % for 200, 100, 500, 1000 and 2000 SD, respectively.The study indicated that Klebsiella pneumoniae(13.7 %), Bacillusspp(12.7 %), Staphylococcus epidermidis (10.8 %), Salmonella spp (9.7%), Serratia spp(8.8 %), E coli (7.8 %), Pseudomonas aerugenosa (6.9%), Enterobacter spp(6.9 %), Yesrssinia spp (6.9 %), Staph aureus (5.9%),Proteus spp(4.9 %), Hafnia alvei (2.9 %)and Citrobacter spp (2 %).Were the most frequently isolatedbacterial species contaminatingSudanese currency notes.

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رقم الوثيقة

04e4f11e-43a1-44b0-9fff-45899a3a5fc1

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Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Bacterial Contamination Of Sudanese Paper Currency

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الإشراف

خالد محمد

الإعداد

نزار محمد

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