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Microbiologic Characteristics of the SSIs
| Causative pathogen | SSI (No.) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superficial sternal (n=28) | Deep sternal (n=22) | LHSI (n=50) | Total (N=100) | |
| Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 5 | 13 | 3 | 21 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| Enterococcous species | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Gram-negative bacilli | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Polymicrobial | 1 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Culture negative | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| Culture not performed | 10 | 0 | 28 | 38 |
LHSI = leg harvest site infection; SSI = surgical site infection.
