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Background  It is known that mobile phones may play a role in microorganism transmission. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the number of  Candida  genera/species isolated from samples collected from the surfaces of mobile phones and the hands of the staff as well as the preferred health-related behavior.    Methods  The mycological evaluation included 175 mobile telephones and the hands of staff members at the University Hospital in Białystok, Poland. We used the Count-Tact TM  applicator, with CandiSelect (Bio-Rad). Self-administered questionnaire was used to gather data on mobile phones disinfection practices. Assessment of the preferred health-related behavior was based on The Multidemensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC).    Results  Out of 175 mobile phones, 131 (74.9 %) were colonized.  Candida glabrata ,  C. albicans  and  C.krusei  were isolated more frequently from the hand as well as phone surface. The mean number of  Candida  colonies was higher in samples collected from hand surfaces than mobile phone surfaces. No significant correlation was found between the preferred health-related behavior and the frequency of washing hands, the way of using a mobile phone, the number of colonies or the isolation frequency for the fungi collected from the surface of the phones and hands of their owners. Only 19.4 % of the participants cleaned the surface of their phones.    Conclusion  The prevalence of mobile phone contamination by  Candida  is high in the University Hospital in Białystok, Poland.  Candida albicans ,  C. glabrata,  and  C. krusei  were the dominant species in the samples collected from mobile phones and hands. These results pose the need to develop guidelines for mobile phone disinfection.

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