Table 2.
Comparison of SF and BC results in 391 samples
| Result | No. of BC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive for a pathogen | Negative | Contaminated | Total | ||
| SF | Positive for a pathogen | 32 | 26 | 2a | 60 |
| Negative | 25 | 289 | 17b | 331 | |
| Contaminated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 57 | 315 | 19 | 391 | |
a
1 BC contaminated by Staphylococcus epidermidis was positive for Streptococcus spp. with SF; 1 BC contaminated by Propionibacterium acnes was positive for Enterobacter cloacae/Enterobacter aerogenes with SF.
b
16 BCs contaminated by CoNS; 1 BC contaminated by Corynebacterium amycolatum.