TABLE 2.
Microorganisms judged to be contaminants from blood cultures obtained using chlorhexidine and iodine tincture
| Microorganism | No. (%) of contaminated blood cultures |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorhexidine (n = 115) | Iodine tincture (n = 123) | Total (n = 238) | |
| Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus | 90 (78.3) | 95 (77.2) | 185 (77.7) |
| Viridans group Streptococci | 8 (7.0) | 10 (8.1) | 18 (7.6) |
| Corynebacterium species | 5 (4.3) | 3 (2.4) | 8 (3.4) |
| Bacillus species | 1 (0.9) | 5 (4.1) | 6 (2.5) |
| Propionibacterium species | 2 (1.7) | 2 (1.6) | 4 (1.7) |
| Micrococcus species | 1 (0.9) | 4 (3.3) | 5 (2.1) |
| Lactobacillus species | 2 (1.7) | 1 (0.8) | 3 (1.3) |
| Polymicrobial | 6 (5.2) | 3 (2.4) | 9 (3.8) |