A Multicenter Study of the Epidemiology of Deep Surgical Site Infections in Children With Nonidiopathic Early-Onset Scoliosis Including Associated Pathogens

i) Study design: Retrospective descriptive.
ii) The incidence of deep SSIs per patient was 12.6%; 75 patients had one or more deep SSIs.
iii) Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (48.4% of SSIs), methicillin-resistant S. aureus (23.1%), and coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS, 8.8%) were the most common GPCs. Escherichia coli (5.5% of SSIs), Enterobacter cloacae (4.4%), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (4.4%) were the most common among GNRs.
iv) As GNR susceptibility to cefazolin was only 41%, expanding prophylaxis to include aminoglycosides for GNR is prudent.

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