Mobile phones in the orthopedic operating room: Microbial colonization and antimicrobial resistance

Table 1 Results of bacterial culture and colony counts

Organism	Cell phones (n)1	Colony count, n (%)
		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

¹44% of mobile phones harbored more than 1 organism.