Table 1.

Demographics and history of patients in the study.

Case	Age/Sex	History	Duration of symptoms	Micro-organism on culture	Antibiotics IV (days)	Antibiotics Oral(weeks)	Pre-op ROM	Time required for normal CRP aftedr 1st stage	CRP(mg/L) /ESR(mm/hr) before implantation	AORI classification	Implant used	Oxford knee score at 2 yr follow-up	Final follow-up(months)
1	56/M	Septic knee with proximal tibial osteomyelitis post tibial plating	13 months	Staphylococcus aureus	Tazocin(3)+ Cloxacillin(14)	Cloxacillin + Rifampicin – 7 wk	30–110 deg	12wk	1.94 mg/L 5 mm/h	Type 3	RHK with augment	37	32
2	65/M	Septic arthritis following the previous arthroscopy	3 months	Achromobacter denitrificans	Meropenem (18)	Cotrimoxazole 6wk	30–120 deg	10wk	2 mg/L 12 mm/h	Type 2	RHK	49	41
3	65/M	Septic arthritis with osteomyelitis proximal tibia following repeated Intra-articular injections	4 months	Achromobacter xylosoxidans	Vancomycin(1)+ Meropenem (18)	Cotrimoxazole 12wk	15–90 deg	8wk	2.99 mg/L 10 mm/h	Type 2	LCCK	41	26
4	66/M	Septic arthritis following repeated Intra-articular injections	4 months	Staphylococcus epidermidis	Meropenem(35)		0–100 deg	7wk	0 mg/L 10 mm/h	Type 1	Persona	46	40