Table 2.

Agreement of microscopy and Pan-Candida PCR methods with the gold standard method (culture)

		Culture		Total
		True positive	True negative
Microscopy	Positive	n=42	n=6	n=48
	Negative	n=0	n=89	n=89
Pan- Candida PCR	Positive	n=35	n=20	n=55
	Negative	n=7	n=75	n=82
Total		n=42	n=95	n=137

PCR: polymerase chain reaction