Table 7.
Shunt infections, clinical data, AIS vs non-AIS, pathogens and antibiograms.
| ID | Age [year] | Sex | No. of risk factors | Time to infection1 [days] | AIS2 | Organism | Rifampicin | Clindamycin |
| 15 | 54.3 | f | 2 | 6 | 0 | S. epidermidis | s | r |
| 10 | 50.2 | m | 1 | 12 | 0 | Citrobacter koseri | r | not tested |
| 8 | 53.5 | m | 2 | 15 | 0 | S. epidermidis | s | r |
| 1 | 61.3 | f | 4 | 15 | 0 | S. epidermidis | r | r |
| 11 | 72.1 | m | 2 | 22 | 0 | S. epidermidis | s | s |
| 5 | 25.4 | m | 0 | 28 | 0 | S. epidermidis | r | r |
| 3 | 65.4 | f | 2 | 36 | 0 | S. epidermidis | s | r |
| 14 | 45.0 | f | 2 | 148 | 0 | S. aureus | s | s |
| 6 | 4.0 | f | 3 | 170 | 0 | S. epidermidis | s | s |
| 7 | 77.5 | f | 1 | 375 | 0 | Proprioni bacterium acnes | not tested | s |
| 4 | 74.3 | f | 3 | 4 | 1 | S. epidermidis | r | r |
| 12 | 66.7 | f | 1 | 13 | 1 | gram positive coccus*1 | unknown | unknown |
| 16 | 0.3 | f | 4 | 26/5 | 1 | S. epidermidis | s | s |
| 9 | 53.4 | f | 4 | 178 | 1 | S. aureus*2 | s | s |
| 17 | 3.5 | f | 2 | 106/294 | 1 | S. epidermidis | s | s |
1 Time to infection between shunt implantation and shunt explantation.
2 AIS: Antibiotic impregnated shunt: 0 = no, 1 = yes
*1 gram positive coccus, no specific differentiation possible; *2 Methicillin resistent