Table 1.
Comparative identification of bacteria from blood culture and SeptiFast (febrile episodes/blood specimens)
| PCR | Bacteria | Blood culture |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive |
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| CoNS | S. aureus | S. pyogenes | Acinetobacter spp. | Total positive | |||
| Negative | 41/57 | 6/6a | 0 | 1/1b | 1/1c | 8/8 | |
| Positive | CoNS | 1/1 | 9/11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9/11 |
| S. aureus | 1/3 | 0 | 3/3 | 0 | 0 | 3/3 | |
| E. coli | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| S. maltophilia | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| A. baumannii | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total positive | 5/7 | 9/11 | 3/3 | 0 | 0 | 12/14 | |
*in 3 out of 6 cases a contamination by CoNS was indicated by SeptiFast; **SeptiFast indicated the presence of contamination by CoNS; ***SeptiFast indicated the presence of contamination by streptococci spp.