Vacuum-Assisted Abdominal Closure Is Safe and Effective: A Cohort Study in 74 Consecutive Patients

Table 4

The results of microbial culturing from peritoneal fluid during VAC changes.

Microbe	Number of patients
Enterococcus faecium	29
Enterococcus faecalis	11
Escherichia coli	10
Yeasts	6
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	5
Enterobacter cloacae	5
Proteus vulgaris	3
Staphylococcus haemolyticus	3
Klebsiella oxytoca	2
Klebsiella pneumoniae	2
Morganella morganii	2
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	2
Aeromonas species	1
Citrobacter youngae	1
Serratia marcescens	1
Staphylococcus aureus	1
Bacillus cereus	1