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. 2000 Jul;38(7):2574–2578. doi: 10.1128/jcm.38.7.2574-2578.2000

TABLE 2.

Bacterial isolates detected by both PCR and BACTEC 9240a

Culture ID Probe reactivity n
CoNS Gram P 11
Staphylococcus aureus Gram P 4
Enterococcus sp. Gram P 4
Escherichia coli Gram N 4
Klebsiella pneumoniae Gram N 1
Bacillus sp. Gram P 1
a

ID, identification; n, number of isolates; CoNS, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus sp.; Gram P, gram-positive-bacterium-specific probe; Gram N, gram-negative-bacterium-specific probe. The size of each PCR amplification product was 380 bp.