TABLE 2.

Individual patient diagnoses and treatment information^a

Case	Age (yrs)/sex	Diagnosis	Treatment details			Outcome
			Procedure	Antibioticb	Duration (days)
1	57/F	Viral gastroenteritis	None	Metronidazole	10	Alive at 12 mos
2	75/F	Metastatic gastric cancer	Distal gastrectomy and Roux-en-y reconstruction	Trimethoprim	16	Death at 9 mos
3	44/F	Chronic cholelithiasis	Cholecystectomy	None	0	Alive at 12 mos
4	68/F	Urinary tract sepsis	Sigmoidoscopy	Amoxicillin and metronidazole	12	Alive at 12 mos
5	85/F	Sepsis of unknown source	None	Ceftriaxone	8	Alive at 12 mos
6	87/M	Diabetic foot infection	None	Ticarcillin-clavulanate	12	Death on day 6
7	17/F	Fecal peritonitis secondary to anastomotic leak	Laparotomy, washout, end-ileostomy	Meropenem	71	Alive at 12 mos
8	68/M	Perforated gangrenous appendicitis	Open appendectomy	Ceftriaxone and metronidazole	8	Alive at 12 mos
9	57/F	Perforated sigmoid diverticulum	Pelvic washout + Hartmann's	Amoxicillin-clavulanate	48	Alive at 12 mos
10	81/M	Diverticulitis	Colonoscopy	Ciprofloxacin and metronidazole	19	Death at 8 mos
11	81/M	Prosthetic hip joint infection	None	Ticarcillin-clavulanate	2	Death on day 17
12	12/M	Gastroenteritis	None	None	0	Alive at 12 mos
13	45/F	Diverticulitis	Colonoscopy	Cephalexin and metronidazole	21	Alive at 12 mos
14	94/M	Ischial osteomyelitis	Debridement	Cotrimoxazole and ciprofloxacin	301	Alive at 12 mos
15	81/M	Acute appendicitis	Laparoscopic appendectomy	Metronidazole	3	Alive at 12 mos
16	37/M	Diverticular abscess with colovesical fistula	Gastroscopy	Meropenem	32	Death on day 24
17	11/M	Portal vein thrombophlebitis	None	Clindamycin and ciprofloxacin	43	Alive at 12 mos
18	95/F	Myocardial infarction	Gastroscopy	Ceftriaxone and azithromycin	4	Death on day 4
19	29/F	Labor	None	None	0	Alive at 12 mos
20	77/M	Colitis	Colonoscopy	Amoxicillin-clavulanate	42	Alive at 12 mos
21	70/M	L1–L2 discitis, osteomyelitis, paravertebral abscess, psoas abscess, and meningitisc	CT-guided drainage	Meropenem and linezolid	90	Alive at 12 mos
22	47/M	Perforated appendix	Laparoscopic appendectomy	Amoxicillin-clavulanate	18	Alive at 12 mos
23	78/F	Viral gastroenteritis	None	None	0	Alive at 12 mos
24	66/M	Stroke	Colonoscopy	Ceftriaxone and metronidazole	44	Alive at 12 mos
25	87/F	Exacerbation of COPD	None	Amoxicillin and doxycycline	6	Death at 11 mos
26	88/F	Colonic arteriovenous malformations, diverticular disease	Colonoscopy	Amoxicillin-clavulanate	7	Death at 7 mos
27	66/M	Infected femoral artery puncture site, ischemic gut	Debridement and femoral arterial repair; gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and push enteroscopy	Meropenem	43	Death at 3 mos
28	72/M	Biliary sepsis, pancreatic cancer	Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram	Amoxicillin-clavulanate and metronidazole	46	Death at 4 mos
29	30/M	Gastroenteritis	None	None	0	Alive at 12 mos
30	87/M	Sigmoid diverticulitis; Clostridium difficile colitis	None	Metronidazole	23	Death at 3 mos
31	45/F	Left thigh abscess	Debridement and washout of abscess	Amoxicillin-clavulanate	23	Alive at 12 mos
32	65/F	Non-small-cell lung cancer	Right upper/middle lobectomy; sigmoidoscopy	Piperacillin-tazobactam	54	Alive at 12 mos
33	57/F	Enterocutaneous fistula	Laparotomy, mesh removal, fistula repair, cholecystectomy	Piperacillin-tazobactam	22	Alive at 12 mos

^aF, female; M, male; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CT, computed tomography.

^bAs most patients received multiple antibiotics, those displayed are the ones used for the longest time.

^cPreviously described case report (12).