Table 2.

Bacteria isolated from the study subjects

	Preoperative culture				Intraoperative	Postoperative
Organisms	Nasal	Axilla	Groin	Perianal		n =39
Coagulase negative
Staphylococcus	94	62	20	0	1	6(15.4%)
E. coli	0	0	8	58	2	5(12.8%)
S. aureus	34	27	0	0	1	12(30.8%)
Klebsiella spp	1	0	2	10	0	5(12.8%)
Kluyvera spp	0	0	5	8	0	5(12.8%)
Citrobacter frendii	0	3	2	0	0	0 (0)
Enterococcus spp.	0	0	8	5	0	0 (0)
P. aeruginosa	0	0	1	0	0	4 (10.3%)
Proteus spp.	0	0	0	4	0	0 (0)
Acinetobacter spp.	0	0	0	1	0	0 (0)
E. cloacae	0	0	0	0	0	1(2.6%)
Serratia marscence	0	0	0	0	0	1 (2.6%)
Total	129	92	46	86	4	39