TABLE 5.

Synopsis of results of recently published evaluations of direct ID and susceptibility testing of GNRs from positive BCs

Authors (reference)	Yr of publication	Testing purposea	No. of strains included	% Correct identification	% Strains with:			Method
					Very major error	Major error	Minor error
Putnam et al. (9)	1997	SUS	50		0.3	0.9	6.4	BACTEC system with VITEK 1 system
Waites et al. (12, 13)	1998	ID, SUS	133	96/72b	2.7/8.1b	1.4/0.7b	NDc	BacT/Alert system with MicroScan system
Steinbrückner et al.d	2001	ID, SUS	65	82	0.1	0.0	2.3	BacT/Alert system with VITEK 2 system
Hansen et al. (4)	2002	ID, SUS	169	75	0.0	0.7	0.4	BACTEC system with VITEK 1 system
Fontanals et al. (3)	2002	ID, SUS	118	98.3	0.1	0.3	2.2	BacT/Alert system with Wider system
Ling et al. (5)	2003	ID, SUS	118	82.2	0.2	0.4	1.9	BacT/Alert system with VITEK 2 system
Present study	2004	ID, SUS	309	92.9	0.1	0.1	0.8	BACTEC system with PHX system

^aSUS, susceptibility.

^bData for overnight panels/data for rapid panels.

^cND, no data.

^dJahrestagung Dtsch. Ges. Hyg. Mikrobiol., poster P16, 2001.