Table 2.

The percentage of concordant results between direct identification and conventional method among 2,032 monomicrobial blood cultures.

Group of Microorganism	Conventional method (no. of isolates)	Direct method
		No. (%) log(score) of:
		Score ≥2.000	Score ≥1.700	Score ≥1.400
Gram-positive bacteria	888	49.10%	84.46%	95.61%
Gram-negative bacteria	976	68.95%	94.06%	97.34%
Fungi	138	8.70%	60.87%	92.75%
Anaerobic bacteria	30	50%	93.33%	96.67%
Total	2,032	55.91%	87.60%	96.26%