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Table 5 Pathogens identified by wound swabs in the SSI group

From: Single-center experience with perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infections in kidney transplant recipients

Gram’s stain

Bacterial species

Resistance phenotypes

Frequency

Type of surgical site infection

Superficial

Deep

Organ/space

Positive (5/19)

Enterococcus faecalis

 

2

1

 

1

Enterococcus faecium

HLAR

2

1

 

1

Finegoldia magna

 

1

1

  

Negative (14/19)

 

Escherichia coli

 

3

2

1

 
 

Enterobacter cloacae compl

ESBL+

2

2

  
 

Klebsiella pneumoniae

ESBL+

5

4

 

1

 

Bacteroides vulgatus

 

1

  

1

 

Acinetobacter baumannii compl

ESBL+

3

1

1

1

   

19

12

2

5

  1. HLAR high-level aminoglycoside resistance, ESBL extended-spectrum beta-lactamase