TABLE 3.

Best-match identification results of 43 clinical Nocardia isolates with the MALDI BioTyper database alone and enriched with our own Nocardia database

Log score	Isolate result determined with MALDI BioTyper database				Isolate result determined with MALDI BioTyper database supplemented with spectra issued from our home-made database
	%	No. identified/total		No. misidentified/total	%	No. identified/total		No. misidentified/total
		Species level	Genus level			Species level	Genus level
≥2	23	10/43			79	34/43
≥1.7 and <2	21	7/43	2/43		9	3/43	1/43
<1.7	56	9/43		15/43	12	1/43	2/43	2/43