<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.0/JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<!--<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="article.xsl"?>-->
<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.0" xml:lang="en"
    xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <front>
        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.18</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Bacteriological Evaluation of Hand Contact Surfaces at Bus Terminals in Uyo Metropolis</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>U.M. John</surname>
                        <given-names>Ofonime</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>A. Adegoke</surname>
                        <given-names>Anthony</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>

                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, University of Uyo, P.M.B.1017, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700 South Africa.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1187</fpage>
            <lpage>1193</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
					xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
                            >https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</uri></license-p>
                </license>
            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/bacteriological-evaluation-of-hand-contact-surfaces-at-bus-terminals-in-uyo-metropolis/
"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Bacteriological evaluation of contact surfaces (counters, chairs/benches, railings,
poles, tables and door handles of rest rooms) at selected bus terminals in Uyo metropolis
was carried out using standard procedures. Counters and poles revealed highest (log10 6.3 ±
0.7CFU/cm2) and least (log10 1.5±0.3 CFU/cm2 ), total heterotrophic bacterial counts respectively.
Bacterial isolates associated with the contact surfaces included Staphylococcus aureus, S.
epidermidis, Escherichia coli and species of the genera Bacillus, Micrococcus, Streptococcus,
Proteus, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella and Serratia. Bacillus sp (16.6%) and Serratia sp (2.8%)
revealed highest and least frequency distribution among the isolates. The Gram positive bacteria
associated with the contact surfaces showed highest susceptibility (93%) to erythromycin and
least susceptibility (12.2%) to augmentin while the Gram negative bacteria revealed highest
(92.3%) and least (13.8%) susceptibility to ofloxacin and augmentin respectively. This study has
revealed that contact surfaces at bus terminals can harbor potential pathogenic microorganisms
hence adequate and regular sanitation practices should be embraced by staff and travelers at
these places to avoid possible health risk.
		</p>
		</abstract>
		<kwd-group>
        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Bacteriological</kwd>
        <kwd>Contact surfaces</kwd>
			<kwd>antibiotics</kwd>
			<kwd>Pathogenic</kwd>
			<kwd>Bus terminals</kwd>
         </kwd-group>
        </article-meta>
    </front>
    </article>
