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. 2020 May 18;11(5):252–264. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v11.i5.252

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
1

44% of mobile phones harbored more than 1 organism.