Table 1.
Results of bacterial culture and colony counts
Organism | Cell phones (n)1 |
Colony count, n (%) |
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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.