Identification of bacterial isolates in blood culture samples with the BC-GN assay.

a Bacterial species inoculated into blood culture bottles or bacterial species identified in clinical samples of blood culture bottles.b Blood culture samples into which bacterial isolates were inoculated.c Clinical blood culture samples obatined from sepsis patients.d Numbers of isolates which were correctly identified with the BC-GN assay.e Numbers of isolates which were not detected with the BC-GN assay.f Numbers of isolates which were incorrectly identified with theBC-GN assay.g Numbers of bacterial species which were identified in clinical samples with the conventional methods. Some of the samples contained 2 or 3 bacterial species.h Concordance rate between the BC-GN assay and the conventional methods for bacterial identification.i CI indicates confidence intervalj A sample inoculated with K. pneumoniae was identified as Enterobacter spp. with the assay.