Table 2.

Bacterial culture of the first-pass meconium.

	Vaginal N = 23	C-section N = 21	All N = 44
Negative	7 (30%)	16 (76%)	23 (52%)
Coagulase-negative staphylococci	6 (26%)	2 (9.5%)	9 (20%)
Escherichia coli	3 (13%)	0	3 (6.8%)
Lactobacillus species	2 (8.7%)	0	2 (4.5%)
Group viridans streptococci	1 (4.3%)	1 (4.8%)	2 (4.5%)
Staphylococcus epidermidis	1 (4.3%)	0	1 (2.3%)
Bacillus species	1 (4.3%)	0	1 (2.3%)
Propionibacterium species	1 (4.3%)	0	1 (2.3%)
Group B streptococci	1 (4.3%)	0	1 (2.3%)
Culture results unavailable	1	2	3