TABLE 1.
Microbes isolated from islet cell samples processed between December 2009 and September 2012 by the SNBTS Islet Isolation Laboratory
| Parameter or microbe isolated | No. (%) of samples of the indicated type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport fluid filtrate | Transport fluid supernatant | Postpurification supernatant | Pretransplant supernatant | |
| Total no. negative | 15 (28.8) | 22 (42.3) | 44 (95.7) | 21 (100) |
| Total no. positive | 37 (71.2) | 30 (57.7) | 2 (4.3) | |
| Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus sp. | 7 (13.5) | 7 (13.5) | 2 (4.3) | |
| Yeasts | 7 (13.5) | 3 (5.8) | ||
| Escherichia coli | 4 (7.7) | 5 (9.6) | ||
| Candida albicans | 1 (1.9) | 1 (1.9) | ||
| Pseudomonas fluorescens | 5 (9.6) | 1 (1.9) | ||
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 3 (5.8) | 2 (3.8) | ||
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 5 (9.6) | |||
| Lactobacillus sp. | 2 (3.8) | 2 (3.8) | ||
| Pseudomonas sp. | 1 (1.9) | 3 (5.8) | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 3 (5.8) | 1 (1.9) | ||