Evaluation of Verigene Blood Culture Test Systems for Rapid Identification of Positive Blood Cultures

Table 4

Identification of the Verigene Gram-Negative Blood Culture in monomicrobial samples.

Organism	Number of isolates	⁢Number of correctly identified isolates
		Verigene	MicroScan
E. coli	82	81	82
K. pneumoniae	19	19	19
Acinetobacter spp.	22	22	22
Enterobacter spp.	4	4	4
Proteus spp.	4	4	4
Citrobacter spp.	3	3	3
K. oxytoca	2	2	2
P. aeruginosa	1	1	1
Not targeted organism	8		6
Total	146	137	144

Two isolates identified Klebsiella pneumoniae by MicroScan but Klebsiella variicola by rpoB sequencing.
Included three Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, two K. variicola, one Aeromonas hydrophila, one Burkholderia cepacia, and one Morganella morganii.