Figure 1.

Bacteria and Candida detected in the Rapid Diagnosis of Infections in the Critically Ill (RADICAL) study. Distribution of organisms reported by polymerase chain reaction/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (PCR/ESI-MS) (blue bar) and culture (red bar) observed in the RADICAL study are shown, sorted by decreasing order of PCR/ESI-MS reported organisms. Both methods showed similar distribution for the top eight reportable organisms that were seen >5 times by PCR/ESI-MS, with some minor reshuffling of the order. PCR/ESI-MS showed a longer tail of reportable organisms that were infrequent (≤5 times). Normal skin flora are shown below the line were not included in further analysis by either method.