Table 1.

Patients with positive cultures

Patient	Pathology	Age (years)	No. of allografts	Bacteria	Growth	Follow-up (months)
1	Scoliosis	16	2	Corynebacterium spp.	Important	66
				Rhodococus equi	Important
2	Scoliosis	17	2	Staphylococci coagulase positive	Poor	66
				Staphylococci coagulase positive	Poor
3	Scoliosis	14	2	Staphylococci coagulase negative (ECN)	Poor	60
4	Scoliosis	12	2	Peptostreptococcus spp.	Important	60
5	Scoliosis	10	2	ECN	Poor	42
				ECN	Poor
6	Scoliosis	13	1	ECN	Poor	42
7	Scoliosis	16	2	Bacillus spp.	Poor	42
				Corynebacterum jeikeium	Poor
8	Scoliosis	12	3	ECN	Poor	42
				ECN	Poor
9	Arthritis	70	1	ECN	Poor	30
10	Scoliosis	14	1	ECN	Poor	30
11	Scoliosis	17	3	Corynebacterium jeikeium	Poor	30
12	Arthritis	54	1	Pseudomonas stutzeri	Poor	30
13	Spinal fracture	45	2	Pseudomonas stutzeri	Poor	30
14	Scoliosis	14	2	ECN	Poor	18
15	Arthritis	50	2	ECN	Poor	12
16	Arthritis	45	2	Streptococcus mitis	Poor
				Actinomyces odontolyticus	Poor	18