Table 1.

Organisms isolated from culture-positive patient events

Organism	No. of events in which organisms were recovered
	Infected events (n = 42)	Nondiagnostic eventsb (n = 45)
Propionibacterium acnes	23	26
Coagulase-negative staphylococci	7	17
Staphylococcus aureusa	6
Candida albicans	2
Finegoldia magna	2
Pseudomonas putida	1
Mycobacterium marinum	1
Enterococcus faecalisa	1
Otherc		16

^aOne instance of an S. aureus and E. faecalis polymicrobial infection.

^bSixteen patient events had more than one organism recovered.

^cIncludes Bacillus, Micrococcus, Paenibacillus, Kocuria, Dermacoccus, Corynebacterium, and Micromonospora species.