Table 3.

Pearson's correlation between species occurrence and contact time.

	24 h	48 h	K. pneumoniae	S. haemoliticus	P. aeruginosa	A. cavia
24 h		−0.995	0.925	0.593	0.974	0.907
48 h	−0.995		−0.951	−0.557	−0.971	−0.901
K. pneumoniae	0.925	−0.951		0.535	0.896	0.804
S. haemoliticus	0.593	−0.557	0.535		0.560	0.682
P. aeruginosa	0.974	−0.971	0.896	0.560		0.930
A. cavia	0.907	−0.901	0.804	0.682	0.930

Values in bold are statistically significant (p=0.05).