Research Article
The Novel Role of Healing from Bacterial Infections of Lower Limb Open Fractures by X-Ray Exposure
Table 6
Times of X-ray exposure and grades of open fractures according to the type of isolated bacteria in the study.
| Type of bacteria | Times of X-ray exposure | Total n (%) | One n (%) | Two n (%) | Three n (%) |
| Staphylococcus aureus | Grade | II | 18 (90%) | 2 (10%) | — | 20 (95.2%) | IIIA | — | — | 1 (100%) | 1 (4.8%) | Total | | | | | 21 (100%) | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Grade | II | 1 (100%) | — | — | 1 (10%) | IIIA | — | 6 (100%) | — | 6 (60%) | IIIB | — | 2 (100%) | — | 2 (20%) | IIIC | — | — | 1 (100%) | 1 (10%) | Total | | | | | 10 (100%) | Escherichia coli | Grade | IIIA | — | 1 (100%) | — | 1 (7.7%) | IIIB | — | 3 (100%) | — | 3 (23.1%) | IIIC | — | 2 (22.2%) | 7 (77.8%) | 9 (69.2%) | Total | | | | | 13 (100%) | Klebsiella pneumoniae | Grade | IIIA | — | 2 (100%) | — | 2 (28.6%) | IIIB | — | 5 (100%) | — | 5 (71.4%) | Total | | | | | 7 (100%) | Total | Grade | II | 19 (90.5%) | 2 (9.5%) | — | 21 (41.2%) | IIIA | — | 9 (90%) | 1 (10%) | 10 (19.6%) | IIIB | — | 10 (100%) | — | 10 (19.6%) | IIIC | — | 2 (20%) | 8 (80%) | 10 (19.6%) | Total | | | | | 51 (100%) |
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value of total = <0.05 (highly significant). value = Fisher’s exact test with confidence intervalof 99%. |