Table 1.

Sample results according to diagnostic technique

	Culture	Molecular Culture	Illumina 16S sequencing
Positive resultsa	12	16	16
Positive bone samplesb	5	9	9
Positive ulcer bed samplesc	7	7	7

^aOf 19 bone and ulcer bed samples

^bOf 11 bone samples

^cOf 9 ulcer bed samples