Table 6.

Samples with divergent PCR results in the interlaboratory comparison

Sample ID	Commercial PCR kit (laboratory 1)	In‐house PCR (laboratory 2)	Culture method (ISO 11731:2017)
003	Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1* (Legionella spp.)†	Legionella spp.	Legionella spp.‡
014	Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2‐14	No Legionella spp.	Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2‐14
057	No Legionella spp.	Legionella spp.	No Legionella spp.
058	Legionella spp.	No Legionella spp.	Legionella spp.
067	Legionella spp.	No Legionella spp.	Legionella spp.
083	Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1	Legionella spp.	Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1
090	Legionella spp.	Legionella pneumophila	Legionella spp.

^* Original result.

^† Result after recultivation (just for information purpose, was not included in the statistical evaluation).

^‡ MALDI‐TOF result was Legionella anisa (available due to different results during the comparison of culture method and the commercial PCR kit).