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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2017 Jul 10;189:169–174.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.06.021

Table I.

Organisms considered contaminants

Organism	Bacterial species
Gram positive	Abiotrophia, Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Bacillus (non-anthracis, non-cereus), Bifidobacterium, Brevibacterium, Corynebacterium, Lactobacillus, Micrococcus, Propionibacterium acnes, Rothia, coagulase-negative staphylococci (S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, S. hominis, S. simulans, S. warneri, as well as staphylococci that do not produce coagulase, but that were unable to be speciated biochemically), Stomatococcus, Streptococcus bovis, Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus parasanguinis, Streptococcus salivarius group, alpha streptococci, gamma streptococci, viridans streptococci
Gram negative	Acinetobacter species, Comamonas testosteroni, Raoultella planticola

Organism

Bacterial species

Gram positive

Abiotrophia, Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Bacillus (non-anthracis, non-cereus), Bifidobacterium, Brevibacterium, Corynebacterium, Lactobacillus, Micrococcus, Propionibacterium acnes, Rothia, coagulase-negative staphylococci (S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, S. hominis, S. simulans, S. warneri, as well as staphylococci that do not produce coagulase, but that were unable to be speciated biochemically), Stomatococcus, Streptococcus bovis, Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus parasanguinis, Streptococcus salivarius group, alpha streptococci, gamma streptococci, viridans streptococci

Gram negative

Acinetobacter species, Comamonas testosteroni, Raoultella planticola