Table 1.

In vivo experimental set-up

Group	N	Treatment		Experimental time
Histocompatibility evaluation
A	10	Right Femur	Left femur	12 weeks
		DAC hydrogel	Sodium hyaluronate
Perimplant MRSA bone infection study
MRSA inoculum in right femur			Treatment
1	5	High load (106 CFU)	0 % Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®	7 days
2	5		2 % Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®
3	5		5% Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®
4	5	Low load (104 CFU)	0 % Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®
5	5		2 % Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®
6	5		5% Vancomicyn-loaded DAC®