Table 2.

Breastmilk and Nipple Culture Bacterial Species Growth

		Breastmilk
Bacterial species	Nipple culture cases	Cases (n=61)	Controls (n=53)	Breastmilk p value
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus	50 (87%)	46(75%)	42 (79%)	0.626
S. aureus	12 (21%)	12 (19.7%)	1 (1.9%)	0.003a
Enterococcus sp.	1 (2%)	2 (3.3%)	1 (1.9%)	0.643
Enterobacter sp.	0	0	4 (7.5%)	0.029a
Diphtheroids	2 (3.5%)	5 (8.6%)	3 (5.7%)	0.547
Acinetobacter sp.	7 (12%)	3 (4.9%)	1 (2%)	0.38
Pseudomonas sp.	3 (5%)	2 (3.3%)	1 (1.9%)	0.655
α-Hemolytic Streptococcus	8 (14%)	13 (21%)	14 (26%)	0.523
E. coli	1 (2%)	1 (1.6%)	2 (3.8%)	0.478
Klebsiella sp.	1 (2%)	0	1 (2%)	0.276

Data are n (%).

^aSignificant difference.