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Overall growth of organisms from growth control and test bottles for the BACTEC PLUS and the BacT/Alert FA systems
| Organism recovery | No. of organisms recovered/total (%) with indicated system
|
|
|---|---|---|
| BACTEC PLUS | BacT/Alert FA | |
| Overall | 616/648 (95.1)a | 279/648 (43.1) |
| From growth control bottles | 162/162 (100) | 157/162 (96.9) |
| From test bottles | 454/486 (93.4) | 122/486 (25.1) |
Results are statistically significant (P = 0.0001).
