Table 2. Agreement between the methods compared to the ID 32C. The samples were grouped into groups containing only species that could be identified by both methods.
Groups | Germ tube | CHROMagar | Auxanogram | |||||
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N | kappa | N | kappa | N | kappa | |||
C. albicans | 27 | 0.9 | 29 | 0.38 | 23 | 0.59 | ||
C. famata | - | - | 2 | |||||
C. glabrata | - | - | 2 | |||||
C. guilliermondi | - | - | 1 | |||||
C. krusei | - | 21 | 2 | |||||
C. parapsilosis | - | - | 13 | |||||
C. tropicalis | - | 15 | 22 | |||||
Other species | 62 | 24 | 24 | |||||
Total | 89 | 89 | 89 |