It travels in vegetables raw meat beef contaminated water and even handshakes.
Bacterial on floor.
Out of 32 places in the home the top spots for bacteria are the toilet bowl kitchen drain kitchen sponge or counter.
Micrococcus is a sphere shaped coccus cocci generally means spherical relatively harmless bacterium.
Micrococcus staphylococcus bacillus and pseudomonas.
So when left on the floor for just five seconds both foods picked up between 150 and 8 000 bacteria.
The studies tested three different floor surfaces.
A university of arizona study found that bacteria from our shoes transfer to our floors up to 90 of the time.
Everyone in the house handles it.
E coli is a common bacteria and there is a strain of it that is dangerous to humans.
The study also shows that those bacteria can cause many different types.
830 bacteria square inch vs.
But if they were left for a full minute the rate was magnified 10 times source.
Anytime an object falls onto the ground or gets placed on the floor and is picked up the bacteria is then picked up onto that object onto the surface that object then touches.
Combine this with the fact that it can take just 10 of some strains of salmonella bacteria to cause infection and it becomes clear that grounded food.
People with weak immune systems are.
In fact there s twice as much bacteria on the kitchen floor.
Bacteria can come from anywhere and it could get inside our house and down onto the floor where our kids run barefoot crawl and play.
Time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food bacteria was least likely to transfer from carpeted surfaces and most likely to transfer from laminate or tiled surfaces.
Why there is so much bacteria on the floor.
The food was allowed to remain on the floor from three to 30 seconds.
Tile laminate or wood and carpet.
June 25 2007 your home may be germier than you think new research shows.
The aston study used the bacteria escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus while the clemson study used.
Studies have shown that of the bacteria found in indoor air the most common four are.