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Concordance between the direct GTT and colony GTT for fungal isolates recovered from blood culture bottles
| Species | No. of isolates
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Concordant | Discordanta | |
| C. albicans | 27 | 4 |
| C. glabrata | 15 | 0 |
| C. parapsilosis | 10 | 0 |
| C. krusei | 3 | 0 |
| C. tropicalis | 4 | 0 |
| Otherb | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 63 | 4 |
For all four discordant results the direct GTT was negative, while the colony test was positive.
Other species include C. neoformans and C. lusitaniae (two each).
