TABLE 2.
Results of identification with culture-dependent and molecular algorithm compared to original identificationa
| Original identification (n) | Culture-dependent algorithm |
Molecular algorithm |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concordant |
Inconclusive |
Discordant |
Concordant |
Inconclusive |
Discordant |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| S. dysenteriae (12) | 11 (12) | 92 (100) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 8 (0) | 2 | 17 | 10 | 83 | 0 | 0 |
| S. flexneri (13) | 8 | 62 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. boydii (14) | 13 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| S. sonnei (4) | 4 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| EIEC (30) | 26 (27) | 87 (90) | 1 | 3 | 3 (2) | 10 (7) | 0 (1) | 0 (3) | 29 | 97 | 1 (0) | 3 (0) |
| E. coli, noninvasive (3) | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a
Concordant or discordant refers to comparison with the original identification (Table 1). For inconclusive identification, the original identification is in concordance with one of the results. Values in parentheses are the results after discrepancy analysis.