Table 4.
Distribution of microbial isolates in relation to type of surgical site infection (SSI)
| Type of SSI | Number with surgical site infections |
E. coli n = 139 |
Pseudomonas spp. n = 49 |
Klebsiella spp. n = 35 |
A. baumannii n = 23 |
Proteus spp. n = 21 |
Enterobacter spp. n = 11 |
S. aureus n = 33 |
CoNS n = 27 |
Others n = 14 |
No growth n = 55 | No samples n = 56 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superficial SSI | 366 (%) | 105 (29%) | 42 (11%) | 29 (8%) | 18 (5%) | 18 (5%) | 10 (3%) | 33 (9%) | 24 (6%) | 12 (3%) | 45 (12%) | 30 (8%) |
| Deep SSI | 49 (%) | 17 (34%) | 3 (6%) | 2 (4%) | 4 (8%) | 2 (4%) | 1 (2%) | 0 | 3 (6%) | 2 (4%) | 7 (14%) | 8 (16%) |
| Organ-space SSI | 48 (%) | 17 (35%) | 4 (8%) | 4 (8%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (6%) | 18 (37%) |
CoNS include S. haemolyticus and S. epidermidis and S. lugdunensis. Other microbial isolates include Corynebacterium spp., C. albicans, Achromobacter spp., S. maltophilia, P. stuartii, A. faecalis and M. morganii