Table 1.
Results of bacterial culture and colony counts
| Organism | Cell phones (n)1 | Colony count, n (%) | ||
| Low | Medium | High | ||
| Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus | 62 | 58 (93.5) | 3 (4.9) | 1 (1.6) | 
| Micrococcus | 41 | 41 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Bacillus | 26 | 26 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Pseudomonas species | 10 | 10 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Fungi | 6 | 6 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Corynebacterium | 5 | 4 (80) | 0 | 1 (20) | 
| Streptococcus species | 4 | 4 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Enterobacter | 3 | 0 | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.7) | 
| Acinetobacter | 2 | 0 | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 
| Klebsiella | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
| E. coli | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 | 0 | 
44% of mobile phones harbored more than 1 organism.