Table 4.
Type of microorganisms isolated from Cell phones.
| Type of bacteria | Students | †P value | Professors | †P value | Total | †P value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | Dental | Engineering | Dental | Engineering | Dental | ||||||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||
| Staphylococcus Aureus | 54 | 100 | 83 | 100 | 1 | 8 | 100 | 13 | 100 | 1 | 62 | 100 | 96 | 100 | 1 |
| E coli | 45 | 83.3 | 60 | 73.5 | .02* | 7 | 87.5 | 13 | 100 | .01* | 52 | 83.3 | 73 | 76.0 | .01* |
| Entroccos Feacalis | 32 | 59.2 | 55 | 66.3 | .02* | 6 | 75 | 13 | 100 | .01* | 38 | 61.2 | 68 | 70.8 | .01* |
| Pseudomonas | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14.4 | .001* | 0 | 0 | 12 | 92.3 | .00* | 0 | 0 | 24 | 25 | .001* |
| Candida | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | 0.001* | 0 | 0 | 8 | 61.6 | .00* | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.09 | .001* |
Chi-square test;
P value < .05 is significant.