Table 3. Comparison of identification scores in the second stage of the study.

Routine clinical samples were identified by direct spotting or semi-extraction (yeasts) and by automatic deposition using MALDI Colonyst from the same culture.

Bacteria	Nr. of isolates	Manual deposition average score	Deposition by Colonyst average score
Gram-positive microbes (total number)	213	2.20	2.31
Staphylococcus sp.	71	2.17	2.25
Streptococcus sp.	52	2.27	2.34
Enterococcus sp.	63	2.25	2.39
Other Gram-positive microbes	27	2.01	2.18
Gram-negative microbes (total number)	244	2.30	2.37
Enterobacteriaceae	171	2.33	2.40
Non-fermenting bacteria	44	2.25	2.34
Other Gram-negative microbes	29	2.22	2.30
Anaerobes	46	2.04	2.22
Yeasts	39	2.02	2.14