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Table 1 Bacterial and fungal colonization of the nares, oropharynx and groin of 101 healthy service members detected by PCR/ESI-TOF-MS

From: The use of PCR/Electrospray Ionization-Time-of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry (PCR/ESI-TOF-MS) to detect bacterial and fungal colonization in healthy military service members

 

Total

Bacteria

Fungi

  

Aerobic gram-positive

Aerobic gram-negative

Anaerobic

 

Total colonized

     

 Subjects

101

101

80

75

46

 Organisms

11.8 (2.8)

8.6 (2.0)

1.4 (1.0)

1.2 (1.0)

0.6 (0.8)

Nares colonization

     

 Subjects

101

99

31

56

13

 Organisms

3.8 (1.3)

2.7 (1.3)

0.3 (0.5)

0.6 (0.6)

0.1 (0.4)

Oropharynx colonization

     

 Subjects

99

95

65

22

37

 Organisms

4.2 (2.0)

2.6 (1.3)

0.9 (0.9)

0.3 (0.6)

0.4 (0.5)

Groin colonization

     

 Subjects

101

101

13

30

8

 Organisms

3.8 (1.4)

3.3 (1.7)

0.1 (0.4)

0.3 (0.5)

0.1 (0.3)

  1. Organisms presented as mean number of organisms per subject (standard deviation)