Table 2.

Conventional Blood Culture Results Compared with TaqMan mecA Assay Outcome

Outcome, mecA assay	Clinical results (no.)		Total
	Positive	Negative
Positive⁎	12	0	12
Negative	0	48	48
Total	12	48	60

Clinical results represent the true diagnosis.

^⁎All samples positive for mecA were also positive for S. aureus (Table 1).