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Table 4 Overall results: Results of blood culture (BC) and SeptiFast® (SF)

From: Clinical impact of a commercially available multiplex PCR system for rapid detection of pathogens in patients with presumed sepsis

  BC positive BC negative Total SF
SF positive 14 13 27
SF negative 9* 63 73
Total BC 23 77 100 #
  1. * Two samples yielded two different pathogens by BC but just one by SF
  2. # One sample yielding different species comparing SF with BC not included in table.
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BMC Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1471-2334

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