Research Article

The Performance of Direct Disk Diffusion for Community Acquired Bacteremia due to Gram-Negative Bacilli and Its Impact on Physician Treatment Decisions

Table 3

Agreement between direct and standard susceptibility by species.

Species ()Mean agreement rate (%) Mean very major 
error rate (%)
Mean major error rate  (%)

E. coli (48)81.603.0
E. coli ESBL (7)81.87.80
Klebsiella pneumoniae (13)73.411.90
Proteus mirabilis (5)58.227.30
Enterobacter sp. (5)81.81.80
Klebsiella oxytoca (3)57.66.03.0
Klebsiella oxytoca ESBL (1)10000
Serratia marcescens (3)81.83.00
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3)90.903.0
Burkholderia cepacia (1)90.0100