Table II.
Quantification of bacteria recovered from animals 14 days after inoculation with 1 × 105 colony-forming units (CFU) of S. aureus and treatment with various doses of systemic cafazolin for 72 hours. Results are given in CFU (SEM, standard error of the mean)
10 mg/Kg cefazolin | 5 mg/Kg cefazolin | 2 mg/Kg cefazolin | |
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Bone mean | 0 | 7.21 × 104 | 7.83 × 105 |
Bone SEM | 0 | 4.40 × 104 | 1.35 × 105 |
Implant mean | 0 | 9.82 × 104 | 1.65 × 105 |
Implant SEM | 0 | 5.10 × 104 | 1.61 × 105 |