Table 4.

Bacterial pathogens isolated from the nasopharyngeal swab samples.

Bacterial Pathogen	Number	Prevalence (%)
Coagulase negative Staphylococci	194	47.3
Staphylococcus aureus	95	23.2
Diphtheroids	22	5.4
Micrococcus species	15	3.7
Moraxella species	6	1.5
Klebsiella pneumoniae	13	3.2
Citrobacter species	6	1.5
Escherichia coli	2	0.9
Enterobacter species	2	0.9
Pseudomonas species	2	0.9