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1: South Med J. 2002 Dec;95(12):1408-10. Links

Bacterial contamination of paper currency.

Pope TW, Ender PT, Woelk WK, Koroscil MA, Koroscil TM.

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-5529, USA.

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.

PMID: 12597308 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]