Agreement between microorganisms isolated by conventional microbiological methods and detected by the PCR/ESI-MS method according to the gold standard used and the specimen type.

A) Overall agreement, blood culture gold standard: [(78+128)/224] = 92.0%, and clinical infection criterion: [(83+128)/224] = 94.2%.B) Overall agreement, blood culture gold standard: [(37+152)/262] = 72.1%, and clinical infection criterion: [(50+152)/262] = 77.1%.*Two detections correspond to different specimens from the same patient and sepsis episode.