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Discordant resolution by category
| Strain | No. of specimens with:a |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pink inoculumb | Positive manual read and negative APAS results | Pink colonies | False-positive manual read and negative APAS results | True positive missed by manual read | Agar issues | |
| MRSA | 85 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 5 | 18 |
| S. aureus | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
APAS, APAS analytical module.
Pink inoculum was seen more frequently with traditional swab samples than with ESwab samples.
