TABLE 3.
Reproducibility of quality control testing at all sites after initial read and reread of samples
| Organism | Initial reads |
Rereads |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. identified/total no. (%) | 95% confidence interval (%) | No. identified/total no. (%) | 95% confidence interval (%) | |
| S. aureus | 31/31 (100) | 88.8–100 | 31/31 (100) | 88.8–100 |
| K. oxytoca | 30/30 (100) | 88.4–100 | 29/30 (96.7) | 82.8–99.9 |
| P. aeruginosa | 30/30 (100) | 88.4–100 | 28/30 (93.3) | 77.9–99.2 |
| E. aerogenes | 30/30 (100) | 88.4–100 | 30/30 (100) | 88.4–100 |
| C. glabrata | 31/31 (100) | 88.8–100 | 31/31 (100) | 88.8–100 |
| Negative control (matrix only) | 30/31 (96.8)a | 83.3–99.9 | 30/30 (100) | 88.4–100 |
a
For one of these samples, a result of mixed genera (C. pseudodiphtheriticum, T. ptyseos, B. megaterium, and S. salivarius subsp. thermophilus), which is considered unidentified, was obtained.