No difference in bacterial contamination of hip capsule sutures and control sutures in hip arthroplasty surgery

Table 3 Isolated micro-organisms found in positive suture cultures in 10 of the 98 patients

No.	Capsule suture	Control suture
43	S. epidermidis and Acinetobacter species	-
51	Pantoea species and C. acnes	-
53	Pantoea agglomerans and C. acnes	-
79	C. acnes and Dermacoccus nishinomiyaensis	-
87	Kocuria palustris	Micrococcus luteus
89	Bacillus cereus complex*	B. cereus complex*
95	-	Staphylococcus hominis
99	Staphylococcus warneri	Paenibacillus gluconalyticus
102	-	C. acnes
104	-	C. acnes

‘-‘: no growth; *Morphologically identical Bacillus cereus complex was cultured in both groups (both retraction and control suture cultures of this patient showed the same colony morphology of dark grey, dull grey and off-white of B. cereus complex).

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