Research Article

Reagentless Bacterial Identification Using a Combination of Multiwavelength Transmission and Angular Scattering Spectroscopy

Table 2

Results of the training set for the sensitivity and specificity for each of the target organisms based on transmission data only.

OrganismsE. coliK. pneumoniaeP. aeruginosaS. aureusCNSE. faecalisSensitivitySpecificity

135E. coli1314000097.0%99.8%
46K. pneumoniae145000097.8%99.3%
30P. aeruginosa0030000100.0%100.0%
198S. aureus00017912790.4%99.5%
166CNS0002160496.4%96.9%
45E. faecalis000024395.6%98.1%

: number of spectra used as a training set for each organism.