Biosafety : microbiological analysis of jackets of u niversity students of health courses

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Isabela Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Sampaio, Tiago Lima, Holanda, Marili a Lima de, Rodrigues Neto, Edilson Martins, Marques, Lidia Audrey Rocha Valadas, Campos, Marcia Oliveira Coelho, Nogueira, Nadia Accioly Pinto, Alves, Renata de Sousa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/22815
• topic: Ágar; Exposição a Agentes Biológicos; Exposure to Biological Agents

Health care students are in permanent contact and h andling with biological agents, and using jackets i n inappropriate environments and can contaminate clot hing, other students, the environment and the popul ation. The present study aimed to verify the contamination rat e of jackets of students investigating the situatio n of biosafety. The collect was held with sterile swab in the tissu es, in an area of approximately 4 cm 2 of the sleeves and of the front of the jackets of 100 students and the sample s were plated on Petri containing Blood Agar for mi crobiological analysis. Microbial contamination was detected in 85% of the jackets; being 78,84% Pharmacy students, 95% Nursing, 94,44% Dentistry and 80% Medicine. There w ere observed the presence of Gram-negative and Gram - positive cocci, bacilli, hemolytic bacteria. It con cludes that the jackets are contamination vectors, requiring awareness from the students to the practice of Bios afety.