Table 1: Knee Joint Fluid Culture Results Taken in Clinic Before the Patient Underwent Explant and Antibiotic Spacer Placement and During the Procedure Itself

Microorganism	Preoperative Culture N=38	Intraoperative Culture N=67
	N (%)	N (%)
E. coli	4 (10.5%)	2 (3.0%)
Enterococcus	3 (7.9%)	4 (6.0%)
MSSA	8 (21.1%)	16 (23.9%)
MRSA	5 (13.2%)	11 (16.4%)
Streptococcus (other)	4 (10.5%)	6 (9.0%)
Micrococcus	0	1 (1.5%)
Corynebacterium	0	3 (4.5%)
Peptostreptococcus magnus	0	1 (1.5%)
E.coli/MSSA/P.mirabilis	0	1 (1.5%)
Other	3 (7.9%)	0
No growth	11 (29.0%)	22 (32.8%)
Missing	37 (--)	8 (--)