Table 1.
Organism(s) detected | No. of positive blood culture samples (n = 122) |
No. of positive xTAG assay samplesa | Avg MFI ± SD | |
---|---|---|---|---|
From patients | Spiked | |||
C. albicans | 28 | 1 | 29 | 12,056 ± 2,112 |
C. glabratab | 19 | 1 | 20 | 7,373 ± 1,667 |
C. parapsilosisb | 9 | 2 | 11 | 7,428 ± 364 |
C. neoformans | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8,069 ± 2,681 |
C. krusei | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9,308 ± 1,703 |
C. tropicalis | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8,063 ± 3,205 |
C. guilliermondii | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9,930 ± 1,923 |
C. lusitaniae | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10,815 ± 344 |
C. parapsilosis, C. neoformans | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7,684 ± 153, 8,343 ± 1,662 |
C. albicans, C. glabrata | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
C. krusei, C. guilliermondii | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
C. krusei, C. parapsilosis | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
C. glabrata, C. dubliniensis | 1 | 0 | 1 (C. glabrata) | |
C. dubliniensis | 3 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Aureobasidium pullulans | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Candida norvegensis | 0 | 1 | ND | 0 |
Rhodotorula spp. | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 2 | 0 | ND | 0 |
C. ciferrii | 0 | 1 | 1 (C. neoformans) | |
Staphylococcus aureus | 6 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 5 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Escherichia coli | 2 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Enterococcus faecalis | 2 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Streptococcus pneumoniae | 2 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Klebsiella oxytoca | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Abiotrophia spp. | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
B. fragilis | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Viridans group streptococci | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Chryseomonas spp. | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
E. coli, S. aureus | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp. | 1 | 0 | ND | 0 |
Total | 104 | 18 |
ND, not determined.
One culture was coinfected with coagulase-negative staphylococci.