TABLE 3.
Effect of delayed inoculation of MSM-guided culture compared to that of routine culture
| Target and delay in no. of days to result between routine and MSM-guided culture | No. of specimens with the following culture results for routine culture/MSM-guided culture resultsa:
|
P valueb for pairwise comparisons between the following different delays (days)b:
|
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos/pos | Pos/neg | 2 | 3 | 4 | ≥2 | ≥3 | |
| S. enterica | |||||||
| 1 | 27 | 1 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 1.0 | 0.47 | 0.99 |
| 2 | 16 | 0 | NA | 1.0 | 1.0 | NA | 1.0 |
| ≤2 | 43 | 1 | NA | 1.0 | 1.0 | NA | 0.99 |
| 3 | 5 | 0 | NA | NA | 1.0 | NA | NA |
| ≤3 | 48 | 1 | NA | NA | 0.99 | NA | NA |
| 4 | 10 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| ≥2 | 31 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| ≥3 | 15 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| C. jejuni | |||||||
| 1 | 64 | 4 | 0.037 | 0.0029 | 0.20 | 0.0047 | 0.0088 |
| 2 | 26 | 7 | NA | 0.36 | 0.74 | NA | 0.99 |
| ≤2 | 90 | 11 | NA | 0.015 | 0.48 | NA | 0.045 |
| 3 | 14 | 7 | NA | NA | 0.30 | NA | NA |
| ≤3 | 104 | 18 | NA | NA | 0.76 | NA | NA |
| 4 | 20 | 4 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| ≥2 | 60 | 18 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| ≥3 | 34 | 11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
a
Pos, positive; neg, negative.
b
P values were determined by the two-sided Fisher's exact test. NA, not applicable.