Bacterial Contamination of Clothes and Environmental Items in a Third-Level Hospital in Colombia

Table 5

Distribution of bacterial isolates from ties.

			Potentially clinically relevant microorganisms				Potentially clinically irrelevant microorganisms
Type of surface	Number of samples per doctor specialty	Number of Isolates	Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus sp.*		Meticillin-sensible Staphylococcus sp.^+		Bacillus sp.
			n	%	n	%	n	%
Ties (𝑛=22)	General (𝑛=4)	6	0	0	4	66,6	2	33,3
	Internal medicine (𝑛=10)	13	2	15,3	6	46,1	5	38,4
	Surgery (𝑛=6)	6	1	16,6	4	66,6	1	16,6
	Medical student (𝑛=2)	2	0	0	1	50	1	50
	Overall	27	3	11,1	15	55,5	9	33,3

∗S. aureus, S. epidermidis. ⁺S. epidermidis, S. hominis, S. warneri, S. aureus.