Gram stain Isolates No of positive Relative percentage
Gram positive (128, 80.5%) Bacillus spp. 24 15.1
Staphylococcus aureus 14 8.8
Other Staphylococcus spp. 42 26.4
Corynebacterium spp. 7 4.4
Streptococcus spp. 25 15.7
Enterococcus spp. 16 10.1
Gram negative (31, 19.5%) E. coli 13 8.2
Klebsiella pneumonia 8 5
Citrobacterdiversus 4 2.5
Enterobacteraerogenes 6 3.8
Total   159 100
Table 5: Proportion of different bacterial isolates recovered from raw milk of Hawassa city smallholder dairy farms [35].