Routine Intraoperative Bacterial Culture May Be Needed in Complicated Appendicitis

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Ann Coloproctol. 2020;36(3):155-162
Publication date (electronic) : 2020 June 30
doi : https://doi.org/10.3393/ac.2019.11.04.1
1Department of Surgery, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Surgery, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea
Correspondence to: Hyung Ook Kim, M.D. Department of Surgery, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 29 Saemunan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03181, Korea Tel: +82-2-2001-8550, Fax: +82-2-2001-2131 E-mail: ho115.kim@samsung.com
*Jung Tack Son and Gue Chun Lee contributed equally as co-first authors.
Received 2019 July 17; Accepted 2019 November 4.

Abstract

Purpose

Choosing the appropriate antibiotic is important for treatment of complicated appendicitis. However, increasing multidrug resistant bacteria have been a serious problem for successful treatment. This study was designed to identify bacteria isolated from patients with complicated appendicitis and reveal their susceptibilities for antibiotics and their relationship with patient clinical course.

Methods

This study included patients diagnosed with complicated appendicitis and examined the bacterial cultures and antimicrobial susceptibilities of the isolates. Data were retrospectively collected from medical records of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital from January 2008 to February 2018.

Results

The common bacterial species cultured in complicated appendicitis were as follows: Escherichia coli (n=113, 48.9%), Streptococcus spp. (n=29, 12.6%), Pseudomonas spp. (n=23, 10.0%), Bacteriodes spp. (n=22, 9.5%), Klebsiella (n=11, 4.8%), and Enterococcus spp. (n=8, 3.5%). In antibiotics susceptibility testing, the positive rate of extended-spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) was 9.1% (21 of 231). The resistance rate to carbapenem was 1.7% (4 of 231), while that to vancomycin was 0.4% (1 of 231). E. coli was 16.8% ESBL positive (19 of 113) and had 22.1% and 19.5% resistance rates to cefotaxime and ceftazidime, respectively. Inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment (IEAT) occurred in 55 cases (31.8%) and was significantly related with organ/space surgical site infection (SSI) (7 of 55, P=0.005).

Conclusion

The rate of antibiotic resistance organisms was high in community-acquired complicated appendicitis in Koreans. Additionally, IEAT in complicated appendicitis may lead to increased rates of SSI. Routine intraoperative culture in patients with complicated appendicitis may be an effective strategy for appropriate antibiotic regimen.

INTRODUCTION

Acute appendicitis is a common disease among patients who come to the emergency room and requires surgery. The lifetime risk of appendicitis is 8.6% in males and 6.7% in females [1]. The standard treatment for acute appendicitis is appendectomy with appropriate antibiotic treatment, and the choice of appropriate antibiotics is especially important in treatment of complicated appendicitis. Antimicrobial treatment involves a delicate balance of optimizing empirical therapy, which has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, while simultaneously reducing unnecessary antimicrobial use [2]. Intraoperative culture has been commonly performed from both the appendix and peritoneal fluid or pus, when present. The spectrum of isolated organisms and their antibiotic susceptibility profiles could help physicians choose appropriate antibiotics and treat intra-abdominal infection more effectively.

Two treatment guidelines about intra-abdominal infection have been published. The first was published by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (SISIDSA) to diagnose and manage intra-abdominal infections [3]. The second was published by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) in 2017 [4]. In addition, the WSES published their guidelines for diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis in 2016 [5]. According to the SIS-IDSA guidelines, the antibiotics used for empirical treatment of community-acquired intraabdominal infection should be active against enteric gram-negative aerobic and facultative bacilli and enteric gram-positive streptococci. Depending on the severity of the infection, the recommended antibiotics regimens are ticarcillin-clavulanate, cefoxitin, ertapenem, moxifloxacin, or tigecycline as single-agent therapy or a combination of metronidazole with cefazolin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, levofloxacin, or ciprofloxacin [3]. In noncritically ill patients with community-acquired intra-abdominal infection, the WSES guidelines recommend a similar antibiotic regimen including amoxicillin/clavulanate; ceftriazone with metronidazole; cefotaxime with metronidazole; or ciprofloxacin with metronidazole, moxifloxacin, ertapenem, or tigecycline depending on risk of ESBL-producing bacteria [4, 5].

Multidrug resistance (MDR) caused by worldwide overuse of antibiotics is an ongoing issue. Especially, organisms with resistance to broad and extended-spectrum antibiotics can lead to complications in treatment. The most relevant MDR pathogens found in acute appendicitis are Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), and Enterococci bacteria [6]. Patients with MDR bacteria in acute appendicitis suffered more infectious complications and needed longer hospitalizations than patients with antibiotic susceptible bacteria [6]. Furthermore, the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli isolated in intra-abdominal infection is especially high in the Asia-Pacific region [7].

Therefore, this study was designed to confirm isolated bacteria and their susceptibilities to antibiotics to treat complicated appendicitis in Korea and to reveal bacteria and their susceptibilities affecting the clinical course of patients. Furthermore, we confirmed the effectiveness of current empiric antibiotics and the usefulness of bacterial culture in patients with complicated appendicitis.

METHODS

Patient selection and data collection

This study includes patients diagnosed with complicated appendicitis. We examined bacterial cultures and performed antimicrobial susceptibility tests on cultures isolated from these patients. Complicated appendicitis is defined a gangrenous change or perforation of the appendix or a phlegmon/abscess caused by appendicitis and present on abdominopelvic computed tomography (CT) or intraoperative findings and proven microscopically. When suppurative periappendiceal/pelvic fluid collection or abscess was present, suppurative fluid or abscess was collected during the operation. When suppurative fluid or abscess was not present and only gangrenous change of appendix was present, swabbing of the appendiceal lumen was performed. Bacterial culturing was selectively performed at the discretion of each surgeon. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was conducted using automated instrument systems with test panels. However, some rare organisms that have no test panel were not tested for antimicrobial susceptibility.

All patients underwent an operation including laparoscopic appendectomy or cecal resection. Patients who initially treated with percutaneous drainage are not included in this study. The initial choice of empirical antibiotics was ceftriaxone (3rd generation cephalosporin) with metronidazole. Data before 2008 were not included in this study because these data do not reflect recent bacteriology, which is continuously changing.

Data were retrospectively collected from the medical records of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital from January 2008 to February 2018. Characteristics of patients including sex, age, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification, length of hospital stay, and results of laboratory tests were collected in medical records. Diagnosis, types of operation, and complications in patients were confirmed by CT images, intraoperative findings, and pathologic reports. Diagnoses were classified into 1 of 2 groups: (1) complicated appendicitis without abscess and (2) complicated appendicitis with abscess. Postoperative complications and mortality within 30 days after surgery were investigated.

Definitions

“Healthcare-associated infection” is defined as an infection acquired during the course of receiving healthcare. It includes not only hospital-acquired infections, but also infections in patients living in nursing facilities, those having recent hospitalization within 90 days, and those using aggressive medical therapies (intravenous therapy, wound dressing) at home and invasive therapies (hemodialysis, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) in outpatient clinics within 30 days of the index infection [8]. “Community-acquired infection” is defined as an infection detected within 48 hours of hospital admission in patients without previous contact with healthcare service [8]. “Inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment (IEAT)” is defined as antibiotics given before the results of the cultures were known resistance to the pathogen in in vitro [9]. “Superficial surgical site infection (SSI)” is defined as an infection that involves only the skin and subcutaneous tissues of incision, and “organ/space SSI” is defined as an infection that involves any part of the anatomy in organs and spaces other than the incision, which is opened or manipulated during operation.

Ethics statement

This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital (KBSMC 2019-04-037). The informed consent of patients was waived because of the retrospective nature of the study.

Statistical analysis

Collected data were statistically analyzed by IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 24.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA). Results were expressed as mean±standard deviations (SDs). Continuous variables were compared using Student t-test or the Mann-Whitney U-test. Categorical variables were analyzed with Fisher exact test and the chisquare test. P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.

RESULTS

General patient characteristics are shown in Table 1. In the study period, 187 patients had undergone bacterial culture after being diagnosed complicated appendicitis, and the culture results were negative in 14 patients (7.5%). The positive rate of bacterial culture in complicated appendicitis was 92.5%, and a total of 173 patients was included in this study. The mean age of the enrolled patients was 44.8±21.3 years, and mean length of hospital stay was 8.9±7.0 days. Male patients (n=110, 63.6%) were more common than female patients (n=63, 36.4%). Included in this study were 135 cases of complicated appendicitis (78.0%) without abscess and 38 cases of appendicitis (22.0%) with abscess. All operations were conducted by laparoscopic surgery. In 42 cases (18%), resection of the cecum was needed because of severe inflammation in the appendiceal stump.

Patients characteristics (n=173)

The mean length of intravenous antibiotic treatment was 8.8±4.9 days. And 71.7% (124 of 173) of patients prescribed oral antibiotics when they discharged. In the result, mean length of total antibiotic treatment was mean 12.7±7.4 days.

After surgery, 30 cases of complications were observed. The most common complication was ileus (11, 5.2%). Superficial SSI and organ/space SSI were observed in 8 (4.6%) and 9 cases (5.2%), respectively. Gastroenteritis was relatively rare (n=2, 1.2%), and 11 patients required readmission for any related reasons (6.4%). Perioperative mortality was not observed within the first 30 days after surgery.

Data of cultured organisms are summarized at Table 2. The number of cultured organisms was 231 in 173 patients. Two or more organisms were cultured from 45 patients (19.5%). Gramnegative bacteria (n=190, 82.3%) were more common than gram-positive bacteria (n=41, 17.7%). The most commonly cultured organism was Escherichia coli (n=113, 48.9%), while the second most common organism was P. aeruginosa (n=21, 9.1%). Next were Streptococcus anginosus (n=11, 4.8%) and Streptococcus constellatus (n=10, 4.3%) followed by Klebsiella pneumonia (n=9, 3.9%) and Bacteriodes fragilis (n=9, 3.9%). When classified by species, the most common bacterial species was also E. coli (n=113, 48.9%). Streptococcus spp. (n=29, 12.6%), Pseudomonas spp. (n=23, 10.0%), Bacteriodes spp. (n=22, 9.5%), Klebsiella spp. (n=11, 4.8%), and Enterococcus spp. (n=8, 3.5%) were also common species in complicated appendicitis.

Characteristics of isolated bacteria (n=231)

Antibiotics resistance of isolated bacteria is summarized at Table 3. There was only one case of healthcare-associated infection. All other cases were community-acquired infections. Ampicillin resistance (n=132, 57.1%) was most commonly observed. Resistance to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) (n=69, 30.0%), cefotaxime (n=51, 22.1%), and cefazolin (n=47, 20.3%) were also relatively common; 21 cases (9.1%) of ESBL positive, 4 cases (1.7%) of carbapenem resistance and 1 case (0.4%) of vancomycin resistance were observed. ESBL-producing bacteria are mostly found in E. coli (n=19, 16.8%) and K. pneumonia (n=2, 22.2%). Vancomycin resistance was found in Enterococcus faecium, which was the only healthcare-associated infection.

Antibiotics resistant of isolated bacteria

E. coli reveal a variety of antibiotics resistance. Resistance to ampicillin and TMP/SMX was reported in 77 cases (68.1%) and 47 cases (41.6%). Resistance to cefazolin (n=30, 26.5%), cefotaxime (n=25, 22.1%), ceftazidime (n=22, 19.5%), cefepime (n=21, 18.6%), and gentamycin (n=22, 19.5%) were also not rare. The positive rate of ESBL was 16.8% (19 of 113). The antibiotics with the least resistance were piperacillin/tazobactam (n=3, 2.7%) and imipenem (n=2, 1.8%).

P. aeruginosa revealed a high resistance rate to ampicillin (n=21, 100%) and cefotaxime (n=20, 95.2%). However, resistance rates to piperacillin/tazobactam (n=1, 4.8%), ceftazidime (n=0, 0%), cefepime (n=0, 0%), ciprofloxacin (n=1, 11.1%), and imipenem (n=0, 0%) were low.

Gram-positive bacteria reveal relatively low antibiotic resistance. Only 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae and 1 E. faecium revealed resistance to antibiotics.

Bacteria isolated from patients who had complications are shown in Table 4. The results of statistical analyses for the relationships between bacterial cultures and complications are summarized in Table 5. Detection of Pseudomonas or ESBL positive cultures was not related to any complication. However, detection of Pseudomonas did affect length of hospital stay (10.5 days, P=0.042). Organisms with resistance to gentamycin (P=0.026) and TMP/SMX (P=0.002) were significantly correlated with organ/space SSI. Organisms with resistance to gentamycin were related to longer length of hospital stay (11.5 days, P=0.049). No specific organism or antibiotic resistance was related to ileus or gastroenteritis. And, patients’ characteristics including sex, age, type of surgery (appendectomy or cecectomy), or ASA physical status classification were not related with any complications.

Complications and isolated bacteria

Statistical analysis for complication related factor

Empirical antibiotic treatment with ceftriaxone and metronidazole showed susceptibility in 174 of 231 organisms (75.3%). Conversely, 56 of 231 (24.2%) organisms showed resistance to empirical antibiotic treatment. Because duplicated resistant organisms were found in 1 patient, 55 patients were identified as cases of IEAT (55 of 173, 31.8%). These cases of IEAT revealed a significant relationship with the organ/space SSI (7 of 55, 12.7%; P=0.005). However, IEAT also did not affect the rate of superficial SSI (2 of 55, 3.6%; P=1.000), ileus (2 of 55, 3.6%; P=0.506), or gastroenteritis (0 of 55, 0%; P=1.000). The mean length of hospital stay for patients with IEAT was similar to others (9.4 days vs. 8.7 days, P=0.571).

In 56 cultured organisms that reveal resistance to empiric antibiotics, the rate of cross resistance to piperacillin/tazobactam, cefepime, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, and TMP/SMX was 7.1% (4 of 56), 42.9% (24 of 56), 25.0% (14 of 56), 7.1% (4 of 56), and 67.9% (38 of 56), respectively. And ESBL-producing bacteria were identified in 21 organisms (21 of 56, 37.5%).

In 7 cases with organ/space SSI with IEAT diagnoses, the antibiotic regimen was changed based on the culture results. These 7 cases included 4 cases of MDR-P. aeruginosa, 1 case of ESBL-producing E. coli, 1 case of MDR-E. coli, and 1 case of vancomycinresistance E. faecium. A vancomycin-resistant E. faecium was isolated from an immunosuppressed patient, previously mentioned as healthcare-associated infection, who had been diagnosed and treated for acute myeloid leukemia, and antibiotic treatment was performed with the recommendation and approval from an tients with community-acquired infection, the aninfectious disease (ID) specialist. In all the other patibiotics were changed to piperacillin/tazobactam with approval by an ID specialist.

DISCUSSION

In the treatment of complicated appendicitis, the 2 main components are source control and antibiotic therapy. Source control generally includes draining the abscess or surgical removal of the appendix. However, recently, these classical ideas have been changed. The new WSES Jerusalem guidelines suggest nonoperative treatment with antibiotics could be effective in selected patients with uncomplicated appendicitis [5]. In the same guideline, nonoperative management is also suggested as a reasonable first treatment for appendicitis with phlegmon or abscess [5]. In this era of changing the concept of traditional treatment, effective antimicrobial treatment is becoming more important in the treatment of appendicitis.

However, the initial choice of antibiotics is always empiric because patients need immediate treatment, while bacterial growth to obtain results of culture and antibiotic susceptibility needs about 24–72 hours. Therefore, recent bacteriologic data are needed clinically to choose the appropriate antibiotics. Moreover, emerging MDR bacteria makes selection of empiric antibiotics more difficult.

Previous studies have reported the most common isolated bacteria in appendicitis to be E. coli. Streptococcus spp., Enterococcus spp., and P. aeruginosa are also commonly observed. However, the proportion of each bacterial type and resistance rate vary [10-13]. The study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART) trial is the only large study that includes data from 122 hospitals in 39 countries focusing on epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility in acute appendicitis. This study revealed the highest prevalence of ESBL-producing E. coli (16.6%) in the Asia-Pacific region. All species studied for the test were quite susceptible to carbapenems [7].

In this study, E. coli (n=113, 48.9%), Streptococcus spp. (n=29, 12.6%), Pseudomonas spp. (n=23, 10.0%), Bacteriodes spp. (n=22, 9.5%), Klebsiella spp. (n=11, 4.8%), and Enterococcus spp. (n=8, 3.5%) are common. This result shows relatively lower rate of E. coli and higher rate of Pseudomonas spp. than previous studies [11, 12]. The rate of ESBL-producing E. coli was revealed as 16.8%. The antibiotic resistance rate throughout all cultured organisms to cefoxitin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, and ciprofloxacin were 10.4%, 22.1%, 10.8%, and 12.6%, respectively. E. coli revealed respective resistance rate to these antibiotics as 9.7%, 22.1%, 19.5%, and 21.2%. In SMART trial, resistance rate of E. coli to cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, and ciprofloxacin were 9%, 10.1%, 10.1%, and 22.0%, respectively. And ESBL-producing E. coli was detected in 8.9% worldwide. The result of this study reveals that antibiotic resistance rate in Koreans is higher than other countries. And the rate of ESBL-producing E. coli in this study is similar to the data of Asia-Pacific region in SMART trial (16.6%) [7]. Pseudomonas aeruginosa revealed very high resistance to cefotaxime, 95.2%. Moreover, 230 of 231 isolated bacteria were community-acquired infections. These results show that the isolated bacteria in complicated appendicitis have a notably high rate of MDR, even in patients with community-acquired infection.

Current guidelines from SIS-IDSA and WSES recommend a several antibiotics regimen for community-acquired complicated appendicitis [3-5]. Among these regimens, the combination of ceftriaxone and metronidazole has been reported as appropriate in comparison with the past regimen, with a rate of IEAT reported at 4.1% (2 of 49) [14, 15]. In this study, the rate of IEAT was 31.2% (54 of 173) using the same antibiotic regimen. This quite high rate of IEAT suggests that some countries have a higher risk of IEAT, like Korea, meet the moment to consider changing the empiric antibiotic regimen for specific high-risk patients. For this, well-designed, multicenter studies are needed.

In this study, detection of Pseudomonas and resistance to gentamycin were related with longer length of hospital stay (P=0.042 and P=0.049, respectively). Resistance to gentamycin and TMPSMX were related with a higher rate of organ/space SSI (P=0.026 and P=0.002, respectively). The mechanism of this relationship was not proven in this study; additional study is needed to prove this clearly. Length of hospital stay in IEAT patients was not statistically different from other, non-IEAT patients, most likely because there are so many other factors that can lead to longer hospital stay, such as ileus.

Recently, several studies have claimed that intraoperative culture is not needed in acute appendicitis. These studies argue that intraoperative culture did not influence clinical outcome in patients undergoing appendectomy. The reason for their argument is that the rate of positive culture is relatively low in most cases and cases needed to change antibiotics are rare because cultured organisms are mostly susceptible to empiric antibiotics [10, 16-19]. However, all studies questioning the use of intraperitoneal swabs were open, nonrandomized, or retrospective studies with incompletely matched control groups and nonstandardized swab collection techniques; consequently, they lacked power to inform surgical practice [20]. Our study is also nonrandomized and retrospective; therefore, we also cannot definitively show evidence that a specific organism affected morbidity or length of hospital stay of patients. However, our study reveals that IEAT increases organ/space SSI (7 of 54). Seven patients with IEAT needed to change antibiotics according to the results of culture, and they all recovered without any additional problems.

Bacterial culture is an inexpensive, simple test that does not harm the patient. Therefore, routine intraoperative culture is necessary, at least in complicated appendicitis, although the majority of the patients may not need it.

In the present study, the second choice of antibiotics in all community-acquired infection was piperacillin/tazobactam according to the antibiotic susceptibility tests. Even in patients with ESBLproducing bacteria, if piperacillin/tazobactam was revealed as effective in vitro, it was used. Although carbapenem has been considered the drug of choice for treating ESBL-producing bacteria, some authors report piperacillin/tazobactam is a useful alternative and not inferior to carbapenem [21-23]. Since piperacillin/tazobactam and carbapenem reveal high susceptibilities (97.4% and 98.3%, respectively) in this study, these 2 antibiotics could be selected in suspecting resistance of empirical antibiotics, even if the result of culture is not available.

This report includes relatively the small number of patients, because the bacterial culture was not routinely performed intraoperatively. In our institution, bacterial culture was selectively performed by the discretion of each surgeon and only 1 surgeon routinely performed intraoperative bacterial culture in most cases with complicated appendicitis.

The methods of culture were different depending on the type of complicated appendicitis in this study. When suppurative fluid or abscess is present, these are collected in culture tube. In cases of gangrenous appendicitis without free perforation, swabbing of appendiceal lumen was performed for culture. Up to now, there has not been a standard method of culture for complicated appendicitis. Especially, the culture method of appendiceal swab is not standardized [20]. Therefore, further studies are needed to develop an approved standard method of routine intraoperative culture in patients with complicated appendicitis.

The rate of IEAT was 31.8% in complicated appendicitis. IEAT did not lead to adverse clinical outcomes in the majority of patients. This means that proper source control still plays a more important role in treatment of complicated appendicitis. Nevertheless, IEAT for complicated appendicitis may lead to increased rates of organ/space SSI.

In conclusion, the rate of antibiotic resistance was high in community-acquired complicated appendicitis in Koreans. Routine intraoperative culture in patients with complicated appendicitis may provide information about an appropriate antibiotic regimen when current empiric antibiotics treatment fails.

Notes

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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Table 1.

Patients characteristics (n=173)

Characteristic Value
Age (yr) 44.8 ± 21.3
Sex
 Female 63 (36.4)
 Male 110 (63.6)
Diagnosis
 Complicated appendicitis without abscess 135 (78.0)
 Complicated appendicitis with abscess 38 (22.0)
Operation
 Laparoscopic appendectomy 131 (75.7)
 Laparoscopic colon resection 42 (24.3)
Complications 30 (17.3)
 Superficial SSI 8 (4.6)
 Organ/space SSI 9 (5.2)
 Ileus 11 (6.4)
 Gastroenteritis 2 (1.2)
Readmission 11 (6.4)
Hospital stay (day) 8.9 ± 7.0
Antibiotic treatment (day) 12.7 ± 7.4

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation or number (%).

SSI, surgical site infection.

Table 2.

Characteristics of isolated bacteria (n=231)

Characteristic No. (%)
No. of isolated bacteria
 1 121 (72.9)
 2 30 (18.1)
 3 12 (7.2)
 4 2 (1.2)
 6 1 (0.6)
Gram negative 190 (82.3)
Escherichia coli 113 (48.9)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 21 (9.1)
Pseudomonas mendocina 2 (0.9)
Klebsiella pneumoniae 9 (3.9)
Klebsiella oxytoca 2 (0.9)
Citrobacter freundii 4 (1.7)
Citrobacter farmeri 1 (0.4)
Citrobacter braakii 1 (0.4)
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron 6 (2.6)
Bacteroides fragilis 9 (3.9)
Bacteroides caccae 3 (1.3)
Bacteriodes ovatus 2 (0.9)
Bacteriodes uniformis 1 (0.4)
Bacteriodes stercoris 1 (0.4)
Comamonas testosteroni 2 (0.9)
Sphingomonas paucimobilis 2 (0.9)
Enterobacter cloacae 1 (0.4)
Enterobacter aerogenes 5 (2.2)
Burkholderia cepacia 1 (0.4)
Aeromonas hydrophilia 1 (0.4)
Proteus mirabilis 1 (0.4)
Prevotella spp 1 (0.4)
Raoultella planticola 1 (0.4)
Gram positive 41 (17.7)
Streptococcus anginosus 11 (4.8)
Streptococcus constellatus 10 (4.3)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 1 (0.4)
Streptococcus intermedius 5 (2.2)
Streptococcus mitis 2 (0.9)
Enterococcus raffinosus 1 (0.4)
Enterococcus faecium 1 (0.4)
Enterococcus avium 6 (2.6)
Lactococcus garvieae 1 (0.4)
Peptostreptococcus micros 1 (0.4)
Parvimonas micra 2 (0.9)

Table 3.

Antibiotics resistant of isolated bacteria

Isolated bacteria Ampicillin Piperacillin/tazobactam Amoxicillin ESBL Cefazolin Cefoxitin Cefotaxime Ceftazidime Cefepime Gentamycin Amikacin Ciprofloxacin Imipenem Meropenem Aztreonam TMP/SMX Tetracyclin Vancomycin
Escherichia coli 77 (68.1a) 3 (2.7) 17 (15.0) 19 (16.8) 30 (26.5) 11 (9.7) 25 (22.1) 22 (19.5) 21 (18.6) 22 (19.5) 5 (4.4) 24 (21.2) 2 (1.8) - 21 (18.6) 47 (41.6) 7 (6.2) -
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 21 (100) 1 (4.8) 0 (0) - - - 20 (95.2) 0 (-) 0 (-) 2 (9.5) 0 (0) 2 (9.5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 3 (14.3) 16 (76.2) 8 (38.1) -
Pseudomonas mendocina 2 (100) 0 (0) - - - - 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (100) 2 (100) - -
Klebsiella pneumoniae 9 (100) 1 (11.1) 1 (11.1) 2 (22.2) 2 (22.2) 0 (0) 2 (22.2) 2 (22.2) 2 (22.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (11.1) 0 (0) - 2 (22.2) 1 (11.1) 0 (0) -
Klebsiella oxytoca 2 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 1 (50) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Citrobacter freundii 4 (100) 0 (0) 4 (100) 0 (0) 4 (100) 4 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (25) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Citrobacter farmeri 1 (100) 0 (0) 1 (100) - 1 (100) 0 1 (100) - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - - 0 (0) - 1 (100) 0 (0) -
Citrobacter braakii 1 (100) 0 (0) 1 (100) - 1 (100) 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Comamonas testosteroni 1 (50) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (50) 0 (0) - 2 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) -
Sphingomonas paucimobilis 0 (0) - 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - - 0 (0) - -
Enterobacter aerogenes 5 (100) 0 (0) 5 (100) - 5 (100) 5 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (20) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Enterobacter cloacae 1 (100) 0 (0) 1 (100) - 1 (100) 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Burkholderia cepacia 1 (100) 0 (0) - - - - 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (100) 1 (100) - -
Aeromonas hydrophilia 1 (100) 1 (100) - - 1 (100) 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (100) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Proteus mirabilis 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Raoultella planticola 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) - 0 (0) 0 (0) - -
Streptococcus anginosus 1 (9.1) - - - - - 1 (9.1) - - - - - - - - - 8 (72.7) 0 (0)
Streptococcus constellatus 0 (0) - - - - - 0 (0) - - - - - - - - - 6 (60) 0 (0)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 1 (100) - - 0 (0) 1 (100) 1 (100) 0 (0) 1 (100) - - - - - - - 0 (0) 1 (100) 0 (0)
Streptococcus intermedius 0 (0) - - - - - 0 (0) - - - - - - - - - 3 (60) 0 (0)
Streptococcus mitis 0 (0) - - - - - 0 (0) - - - - - - - - - 0 (0) 0 (0)
Enterococcus faecium 1 (100) - - - - - - - - 1 (100) - - 1 (100) - - 1 (100) - 1 (100)
Enterococcus avium 2 (33.3) - - - - - - - - 0 (0) - - 0 (0) - - 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Total 132 (57.1) 6 (2.6) 30 (13.0) 21 (9.1) 47 (20.3) 24 (10.4) 51 (22.1) 25 (10.8) 24 (10.4) 25 (10.8) 5 (2.2) 29 (12.6) 4 (1.7) 0 (0) 33 (14.3) 69 (30.0) 33 (14.3) 1 (0.4)

Values are presented as number (%).

TMP/SMX, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.

a

Percentage of antibiotic resistance bacteria/isolated bacteria.

Table 4.

Complications and isolated bacteria

Escherichia coli Streptococcus constellatus Streptococcus anguinus Bacteriodes fragilis Pseudomonas aeruginosa Enterococcus faecium Enterobacter aerogens Klebsiella pneumoniae Sphingomonas paucimobilis No. of isolated bacteria
Superficial SSI 6 2 2 1 1 1 12
Organ/space SSI 6 2 4 1 13
Ileus 8 1 1 1 11
Gastroenteritis 1 1 2

SSI, surgical site infection.

Table 5.

Statistical analysis for complication related factor

Superficial SSI P-value Organ/space SSI P-value Ileus P-value Gastroenteritis P-value Mean hospital stay (day) P-value
Pseudomonas 0 (0) 0.599a 3 (15.0) 0.071a 0 (0) 0.367a 1 (5.0) 0.218a 10.5 0.042b
ESBL positive 1 (4.8) 1.000a 1 (4.8) 1.000a 2 (9.5) 0.626a 0 (0) 1.000a 10.1 0.290b
Antibiotics resistance
Ampicillin 3 (2.5) 0.054a 9 (7.4) 0.059a 7 (5.8) 0.736a 0 (0) 0.089a 9.2 0.455b
Gentamycin 0 (0) 0.604a 4 (16.0) 0.026a 3 (12.0) 0.200a 0 (0) 1.000a 11.5 0.049b
TMP/SMX 1 (1.5) 0.157a 8 (12.1) 0.002a 4 (6.1) 1.000a 0 (0) 0.525a 9.7 0.236b
Vancomycin 0 (0) 1.000a 1 (33.3) 0.149a 0 (0) 1.000a 0 (0) 1.000a 15.7 0.966c
Imipenem 0 (0) 1.000a 1 (25.0) 0.194a 0 (0) 1.000a 0 (0) 1.000a 14.8 0.268c
IEAT 2 (3.6) 1.000a 7 (12.7) 0.005a 2 (3.6) 0.506a 0 (0) 1.000a 9.4 0.571b

Values are presented as number (%).

ESBL, extended-spectrum beta lactamase; TMP/SMX, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; IEAT, inappropriate empiric antibiotic treatment,

a

Fisher exact test.

b

Student t-test.

c

Mann-Whitney test.