TABLE 2.
CNS isolated from two-bottle blood culture sets
| Clinical significance | No. of cultures (%) positive in:
|
Total no. of cultures | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bottle | 2 bottles | ||
| Sepsis | 49 (18) | 78 (37) | 127 |
| Contaminant | 207 (76) | 122 (58) | 329 |
| Indeterminate | 18 (7) | 12 (6) | 30 |
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