TABLE 3.
Comparison of recovery rates of probable contaminants in FAN and 80A blood culture bottles
| Taxon | No. of isolates recovered by:
|
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAN and 80A | FAN only | 80A only | ||
| Non-S. aureus staphylococci | 75 | 132 | 91 | 0.01 |
| Micrococcus spp. | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0.22 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.25 |
| Viridans group streptococci | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0.79 |
| Enterococci | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0.07 |
| Corynebacterium spp. | 2 | 6 | 12 | 0.24 |
| Bacillus spp. | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Enterobacteriaceaea | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0.29 |
| Other gram-negative bacillib | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Moraxella-Neisseria | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.13 |
| Anaerobesc | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0.68 |
| Fungid | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.62 |
| Totals | 90 | 177 | 134 | 0.02 |
a
Five Escherichia coli, one Enterobacter cloacae, one Klebsiella pneumoniae, and one K. oxytoca isolate.
b
Two Acinetobacter, one Capnocytophaga, one Comamonas, one Eikenella corrodens, one Flavimonas, one Pseudomonas putida, and one Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolate and three miscellaneous gram-negative bacilli.
c
Four Propionibacterium acnes, one Bacteroides fragilis group, one Clostridium perfringens, and one Peptostreptococcus isolate.
d
Two Candida albicans, one Alternaria, one Rhizopus, and one Penicillium isolate.