Table 6.

Detailed microbiology of infections

Patient number	Causative organism	Antibiotics used (length of course)
1	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus and Enterococcus spp	Meropenem and vancomycin (4 weeks), then metronidazole (4 weeks)
2	Staphylococcus aureus	Rifampicin, metronidazole and clindamycin (2 weeks)
3	S aureus	Rifampicin and flucloxacillin (2 weeks), then doxycycline (6 weeks)
4	S aureus	Rifampicin and flucloxacillin (7 weeks)
5	Skin flora only	Vancomycin and rifampicin (2 weeks), then flucloxacillin and fusidic acid (2 weeks)
6	Coliform	Rifampicin and clindamycin (9 weeks)
7	Proteus spp	Flucloxacillin (3 weeks), then piperacillin/tazobactam (1 week), then vancomycin and rifampicin (2 weeks)
8	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus	Flucloxacillin (10 weeks)
9	S aureus	Rifampicin and flucloxacillin (4 weeks)
10	MRSA	Vancomycin, rifampicin, gentamicin, mupirocin and chlorhexidine (2 weeks), then doxycycline and rifampicin (4 weeks)
11	Coliform	Meropenem (2 weeks), then ertapenem (5 weeks)
12	Enterococcus spp	Flucloxacillin, amoxicillin (10 weeks) and gentamicin (first 2 weeks only)
13	Coliform and Klebsiella pneumoniae	Rifampicin and flucloxacillin (6 weeks)
14	S aureus and Group A Streptococcus	Co-amoxiclav (2 weeks)
15	MRSA and Enterococcus spp	Flucloxacillin and gentamicin (2 weeks), then clindamycin (2 weeks), mupirocin and chlorhexidine (thoughout)
16	S aureus and Enterococcus spp	Rifampicin, metronidazole and clindamycin (2 weeks)