The Role Of Mobile Phones In Spread Of Pathogenic Bacteria Among Food Vendors And Vended Food Sold In Lagos State

Abstract  Food vendors are important in every socio-economic sector in developing countries, providing ready-to-eat food to the populace and in the process, they transmit pathogenic organisms to the food being sold. However, a very important but neglected source of these pathogenic bacteria is the phone handled by the food vendors. This study is aimed to ascertain if the phone handled by the food vendor could be a potential source of dissemination pathogenic bacteria to the vended food been sold. Sample of five food types from eateries in five different locations were obtained within Lagos e…