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Table 3 Agreement between bacteria estimation using urine PCGS and urine culture results

From: Point-of-care urine Gram stain led to narrower-spectrum antimicrobial selection for febrile urinary tract infection in adolescents and adults

Uncomplicated group (Nā€‰=ā€‰47)

Ā 

Urine culture

Ā 

Enterobacteriaceae

Streptococcus

Nonpathogenic

Urine PCGS

Ā Ā Ā 

Ā GNR middle or large size

44

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā GPC in chains

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Nonpathogenic

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 2

Ā Negative

Ā Ā 3

Ā Ā 2

Ā Ā 0

Kappa (95% CI) = 0.518 (0.318ā€“0.547)

Complicated group (Nā€‰=ā€‰194)

Ā 

Urine culture

Ā 

Enterobacteriaceae

Pseudomonas

Streptococcus or Enterococcus

Staphylococcus or Aerococcus

Nonpathogenic

Negative

Urine PCGS

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 

Ā GNR middle or large size

167

Ā Ā 5

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 1

Ā Ā 0

Ā GNR small size

Ā  Ā Ā 4

Ā Ā 5

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 1

Ā Ā 2

Ā GPC in chains

Ā  Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 7

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 2

10

Ā GPC in clusters

Ā  Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 2

Ā Ā 1

Ā Ā 2

Ā Nonpathogenic

Ā  Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 1

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 6

Ā Ā 0

Ā Negative

Ā  Ā Ā 4

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 1

Ā Ā 0

Ā Ā 1

Kappa (95% CI)ā€‰=ā€‰0.608 (0.571ā€“0.653)

  1. CI confidence interval
  2. GNR Gram-negative rods
  3. GPC Gram-positive cocci
  4. PCGS point-of-care Gram stain