Skip to main content

Table 3 Patients positive for Fusobacterium necrophorum. Culture results from three different samplings, visualizing the dynamics of colonisation in individuals. Patients were scheduled for tonsillectomy due to peritonsillar abscess, recurrent tonsillitis or chronic tonsillitis

From: Tonsillar colonisation of Fusobacterium necrophorum in patients subjected to tonsillectomy

Inclusion

Surgery after 1–132 days

Follow-up after 6 months

  

Positive n = 3

 

Positive n = 7

Negative n = 1

  

Lost to follow up n = 3

  

Positive n = 0

Positive n = 16

Negative n = 6

Negative n = 4

  

Lost to follow up n = 2

  

Positive n = 0

 

Culture not obtained n = 3

Negative n = 3

  

Lost to follow up n = 0

  

Positive n = 1

 

Positive n = 7

Negative n = 3

  

Lost to follow up n = 3

  

Positive n = 3

Negative n = 41

Negative n = 27

Negative n = 20

  

Lost to follow up n = 4

  

Positive n = 0

 

Culture not obtained n = 7

Negative n = 5

  

Lost to follow up n = 2