Fig. 3
Bacteriology of retrieved samples during the revision surgery stage 1 and stage 2. (A) At 4 weeks post inoculation, rabbits (n = 11) underwent a first revision surgery, where the debridement tissues and the irrigation fluid used for lavage of the fracture area were collected and quantified. (B) At the second revision surgery (n = 6 from the IMT group, 2.2), debridement tissue, PMMA spacer and the irrigation fluid were collected and cultured. Culture-negative samples were arbitrarily assigned a value of 1 for the purposes of displaying on a log10 axis. Error bars indicate standard deviation (SD)