Table 1.

Bacterial identification of the 20 samples positive by PCR

ID	Age	Specimen	Clinical tentative diagnosis	Bacterial identifcation
1	11 years	Pus	Osteomyelitis	GAS
2	13 years	Joint fluid	Coxitis	GAS
3	19 months	Pus from a lymph node	Not specified	GAS
4	2 years	Joint fluid	Coxitis	GAS
5	20 days	Joint fluid	Coxitis	S. agalactiae
6	8 years	Biopsy, brain	Not specified	S. intermedius
7	2 years	Spinal fluid	Not specified	S. pneumoniae
8	15 years	Spinal fluid	Meningitis	S. pneumoniae
9	37 days	Inoculation from eye	Not specified	S. pneumoniae
10	9 months	Joint fluid	Septic arthritis	K. kingae
11	3 years	Spinal fluid	Not available	N. meningitidis
12	9 years	Biopsy, lymph node	Tularaemia	F. tularensis
13	4 years	Pus	Abscess	F. necrophorum
14	8 years	Joint fluid	Septic arthritis	P. acnes
15	10 years	Spinal fluid	Not available	P. acnes
16a	7 months	Joint fluid	Septic arthritis	P. acnes
16b	7 months	Joint fluid	Septic coxarthritis	Polymicrobial
17a	10 years	Pus, Femur	Ewings sarcoma, ostitis	Polymicrobial
17b	10 years	Biopsy, Femur	Ewings sarcoma, ostitis	Polymicrobial
18	12 months	Spinal fluid	Meningitis	Polymicrobial