TABLE 1.
Performance of the Vitek MS version 3.0 library for the identification of filamentous fungi
| Organism | No. (%) of isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Identified by Knowledge Base version 3.0 | Identified by Knowledge Base version 3.0 plus modified SARAMIS database | Unidentified | Misidentified | |
| Acrodontium salmoneum | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Alternaria spp. | 11 | 10 (90.9) | 11 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Aspergillus spp. | 144 | 125 (86.8) | 133 (93.6) | 8 | 3 |
| A. amoenus | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 2 |
| A. calidoustus | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 1 |
| A. carneus | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| A. chevalieri | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| A. clavatus | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (50.0) | 1 | 0 |
| A. flavus | 31 | 28 (90.3) | 31 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. fumigatus | 63 | 61 (96.8) | 62 (98.9) | 1 | 0 |
| A. lentulus | 2 | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. nidulans | 1 | 1 (100.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. niger | 22 | 19 (86.3) | 22 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| A. sydowii | 5 | 5 (100.0) | 5 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. tennesseensis | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| A. terreus | 8 | 8 (100.0) | 8 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. unguis | 1 | 1 (100.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| A. westerdijkiae | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 | 0 |
| Beauveria spp. | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Bipolaris spp. | 2 | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Blastomyces dermatitidis | 4 | 4 (100.0) | 4 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Chaetomium spp. | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Chrysosporium spp. | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (50.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Cladosporium spp. | 12 | 2 (16.7) | 10 (83.3) | 2 | 0 |
| Coniochaeta velutina | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Coprinellus radians | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Coprinopsis cinerea (Hormographiella) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Curvularia spp. | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 3 (60.0) | 2 | 0 |
| Engyodontium album | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Eutypella scoparia | 3 | 3 (100.0) | 3 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Exophiala spp. | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 0 |
| Fusarium spp. | 26 | 17 (65.4) | 17 (65.4) | 9 | 0 |
| Ganoderma resinaceum | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Histoplasma capsulatum | 2 | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Irpex lacteus | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Libertella spp. | 4 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (50.0) | 2 | 0 |
| Malbranchea filamentosa | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Microsporum spp. | 2 | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Mucor spp. | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) | 2 | 0 |
| Myrmecridium schulzeri | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 0 |
| Neurospora sitophila | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Nodulisporium spp. | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Oxyporus corticola | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Paecilomyces spp. | 4 | 4 (100.0) | 4 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Paraconiothyrium brasiliense | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Penicillium spp. | 20 | 12 (60.0) | 12 (60.0) | 8 | 0 |
| Phialemonium obovatum | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Phialophora americana | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Pithomyces chartarum | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 | 0 |
| Pseudallescheria boydii | 10 | 9 (90.0) | 10 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Rasamsonia argillacea complex | 4 | 3 (75.0) | 4 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Rhizopus spp. | 9 | 6 (66.7) | 6 (66.7) | 3 | 0 |
| Scopulariopsis spp. | 6 | 0 (0.0) | 4 (66.7) | 2 | 0 |
| Talaromyces spp. | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 0 |
| Trametes spp. | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (40.0) | 3 | 0 |
| Trichoderma spp. | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 | 0 |
| Trichophyton spp. | 12 | 12 (100.0) | 12 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| T. interdigitale | 5 | 5 (100.0) | 5 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| T. rubrum | 2 | 2 (100.0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| T. tonsurans | 5 | 5 (100.0) | 5 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Xylomelasma sordida | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 319 | 213 (66.8) | 245 (76.8) | 71 (22.3) | 3 (0.9) |