The study also shows that those bacteria can cause many different types.
Bacterial on floor.
Micrococcus is a sphere shaped coccus cocci generally means spherical relatively harmless bacterium.
But if they were left for a full minute the rate was magnified 10 times source.
Micrococcus staphylococcus bacillus and pseudomonas.
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.
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.
Everyone in the house handles it.
In fact there s twice as much bacteria on the kitchen floor.
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.
The studies tested three different floor surfaces.
The food was allowed to remain on the floor from three to 30 seconds.
Studies have shown that of the bacteria found in indoor air the most common four are.
Tile laminate or wood and carpet.
It travels in vegetables raw meat beef contaminated water and even handshakes.
You may wonder how the bacteria on the floor really matters though as long as it stays there and doesn t make its way into an individual s mouth eyes nose or ears.
A university of arizona study found that bacteria from our shoes transfer to our floors up to 90 of the time.
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.
June 25 2007 your home may be germier than you think new research shows.
People with weak immune systems are.
Why there is so much bacteria on the floor.
Bacteria like the moist area and grow on it.
830 bacteria square inch vs.
E coli is a common bacteria and there is a strain of it that is dangerous to humans.
The aston study used the bacteria escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus while the clemson study used.