Table 2.
Microbiological characteristics of isolates from 62 consecutive patients with prosthetic joint infections
| Microbiology | Monomicrobial n = 43 (69%) |
Polymicrobial n = 19 (31%) |
Total n = 62 |
|---|---|---|---|
| n | n | n | |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 33 | 19 | 52 |
| S. capitis | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| S. hominis | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| S. lugdunensis | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| S. caprae | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| S. warneri | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| S. haemolyticus | 1 | 1 | |
| Enterococcus faecalisa | 7 | 7 | |
| Escherichia colia | 3 | 3 | |
| S. aureusa | 2 | 2 | |
| S. dysgalactiae (GGS) | 1 | 1 | |
| Cutibacterium acnes | 1 | 1 | |
| Peptostreptococcus | 1 | 1 | |
| Enterobacter | 1 | 1 |
aIn two cases, three pathogens were identified in multiple tissue biopsies: S. epidermidis, S. aureus, and Enterococcus faecalis (patient ID 10) and S. epidermidis, Escherichia coli, and Enterococcus faecalis (patient ID 47)