TABLE 1.
Positivity of Mycosis IC/F and Plus Aerobic/F vials on paired blood cultures according to species
| Species | No. of pairs | Positive on Mycosis IC/F
|
Positive on Plus Aerobic/F
|
P (Fisher's exact test) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of vials | % | No. of vials | % | |||
| C. albicans | 278 | 228 | 82.0 | 217 | 78.1 | 0.2887 |
| C. parapsilosis | 65 | 63 | 96.9 | 52 | 80.0 | 0.0045 |
| C. glabrata | 64 | 61 | 95.3 | 24 | 37.5 | <0.0001 |
| C. tropicalis | 56 | 51 | 91.1 | 47 | 83.9 | 0.3922 |
| C. krusei | 39 | 35 | 89.7 | 35 | 89.7 | 1.2885 |
| S. cerevisiae | 17 | 16 | 94.1 | 15 | 88.2 | 1.0000 |
| C. famata | 16 | 16 | 100 | 15 | 93.7 | 1.0000 |
| Othera | 15 | 14 | 93.3 | 7 | 46.7 | 0.0142 |
| Total | 550 | 484 | 88.0 | 412 | 74.9 | <0.0001 |
C. inconspicua, three pairs (three Mycosis IC/F vials positive, two Plus Aerobic/F vials positive); Cryptococcus neoformans, two pairs (one Mycosis IC/F vial positive, one Plus Aerobic/F vial positive); Rhodotorula mucilaginosus, two pairs (two Mycosis IC/F vials positive, zero Plus Aerobic/F vial positive); Malassezia furfur, one pair (one Mycosis IC/F vial positive, zero Plus Aerobic/F vial positive); C. guillermondii, one pair (one Mycosis IC/F vial positive, zero Plus Aerobic/F vial positive); Fusarium proliferatum, one pair (one Mycosis IC/F vial positive, zero Plus Aerobic/F vial positive); combination of two yeasts, five pairs (five Mycosis IC/F vials positive, four Plus Aerobic/F vials positive).