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Table 3 aMicrobiological profile of 213 mobile phones that belong to 198 clinicians in ICUs, PICUs, and NCUs in public secondary care hospitals in Kuwait, 2013

From: Microbiological contamination of mobile phones of clinicians in intensive care units and neonatal care units in public hospitals in Kuwait

 

Positive

No. of colonies

 

n (%)

Median (IQR)

Overall

157 (73.7)

 

CoNSb

134 (62.9)

4 (2–10)

Streptococcus viridans

15 (7.0)

2 (1–6)

Staphylococcus aureus

MSSAc

1 (0.5)

-

MRSAd

3 (1.4)

3 (−)

Micrococcus

61 (28.6)

3 (2–12)

Diphtheroids

6 (2.8)

60.5 (11–116)

Bacillus species

3 (1.4)

-

Other Gram-positive bacillie

15 (7.0)

2 (1–3)

Escherichia coli

1 (0.5)

-

Pantoea species

2 (0.9)

3.5 (−)

Acinetobacter speciesf

6 (2.8)

2 (1–22)

Moraxella osloensis

2 (0.9)

2.5 (−)

Pseudomonas stutzeri

2 (0.9)

4.5 (−)

Sphingomonas paucimobilis

2 (0.9)

-

Fungus

2 (0.9)

-

  1. aICUs: intensive care units; PICUs: pediatric intensive care units; NCUs: neonatal care units; IQR: interquartile range
  2. bCoNS: coagulase-negative staphylococci
  3. cMSSA: methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus
  4. dMRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  5. eOther than diphtheroids and Bacillus species
  6. fAcinetobacter lwoffii (2 mobile phones), Acinetobacter baumannii (3 mobile phones), both (1 mobile phone)