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TABLE 4.

Diagnostic sensitivity of FISH and PCR

Bacterial species isolated from CSF samples	No. of positive samples/total no. of samples tested by:
Bacterial species isolated from CSF samples	FISH	PCR
Neisseria meningitidis	1/2	4/4
Streptococcus pneumoniae	4/4	7/7^b
Streptococcus agalactiae	0/0	2/2
Staphylococcus aureus	1/2	2/2
Staphylococcus epidermidis	4/6^a	7/7
Coagulase-negative staphylococci other than S. epidermidis	1/2^a	3/3
Enterococcus faecalis	1/1^c	1/1^d
Bacillus spp.	0/0	1/1^c
Corynebacterium spp.	1/1^c	1/1^c
Total	13/18	28/28

For coagulase-negative staphylococci, a genus-specific Staphylococcus FISH probe was implemented.

S. pneumoniae was identified as Streptococcus spp. by the Enterococcus/Streptococcus-specific PCR.

Positive with the eubacterial FISH probe or the eubacterial PCR, respectively.

Positive in the Enterococcus/Streptococcus-specific PCR and identified as E. faecalis by melting point analysis (30).