Fig. 2

Growth characteristics of S. pneumoniae isolates at three different temperature conditions (five isolates per temperature condition, except for Fridge for the BacT/ALERT bottles for which there were four isolates) and sub-culture (SC) time points for the automated blood culture systems BACTEC and BacT/ALERT. SC1 = 0–6 h; SC2 = 22–26 h; SC3 = 30–34 h; SC4 = 46–50 h; SC5 = 7 days