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Bacterial contamination of paper currency
Theodore W Pope1, Peter T Ender, William K Woelk
1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-5529, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|February 25, 2003
Abstract:
One-dollar bills were collected from the general community in western Ohio to survey for bacterial contamination. Pathogenic or potentially pathogenic organisms were isolated from 94% of the bills. These results suggest a high rate of bacterial contamination of one-dollar bills.