Table 2.
Patients' background
| Number of positive samples (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The number of samples | Blood Culture | SeptiFast | |
| Infectious disease | 135 | 22(16.3) | 27(20.0) |
| Blood Stream Infection | 104 | 7(6.7) | 5(4.8) |
| Tumor | 51 | 0(0.0) | 4(7.8) |
| Immune deficiency | 33 | 2(6.1) | 5(15.2) |
| Wound | 14 | 3(21.4) | 4(28.6) |
| Diabetes | 48 | 3(6.3) | 7(14.6) |
| Liver disease | 13 | 0(0.0) | 2(15.4) |
| Kidney disease | 11 | 2(18.1) | 2(18.1) |
| Heart disease | 15 | 1(6.7) | 2(13.3) |
| Pancreatic disease | 11 | 1(9.1) | 4(36.3) |
| Ulcer of the stomach | 10 | 0(0.0) | 2(20.0) |
| Hypertension | 9 | 2(22.2) | 2(22.2) |
| Influenza encephalopathy | 7 | 2(28.6) | 1(14.3) |
| Others | 34 | 4(11.8) | 8(23.5) |
| Total | 495 | 49(9.9) | 75(15.2) |