Table 10.

Distribution of wound microflora (from tissue biopsy data)

	Timepoint(s) at which the species was identified in the biopsy (weeks)
	Patient
Species	1·01	1·02	1·04	1·05	1·06	1·07	1·08	1·12	1·13	2·01	2·02	3·01	3·02	3·06
Acinetobacter lwoffii														0
Escherichia coli							0			0
Enterococcus faecalis	8	4		0a			0, 4	4			8		4
Klebsiella oxytoca							0
Mixed growth		0										4
Morganella morganii								0
MRSA	8												4
Proteus mirabilis	0	4				0a		0, 4			4
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	0, 4							0	0
Skin flora				8		0a	4						8
Proteus penneri											8
Proteus vulgaris											0, 4
Serratia marcescens			8				0, 4
Staphylococcus aureus				0a, 4	0					0		0	0
Staphylococcus epidermis	4
Staphylococcus haemolyticus			0
Strep dysgalactiae ssp equisim											0
Streptococcus group B										0
Streptococcus pluranimalium											4

MRSA, Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

^aBiopsy taken at week 1 due to insufficient biopsy size at week 0.