Potential Impact of Rapid Blood Culture Testing for Gram-Positive Bacteremia in Japan with the Verigene Gram-Positive Blood Culture Test

Table 3

Difference in time to final identification and antimicrobial susceptibility report.

Organism	Sakakibara Heart Institute		Toranomon Hospital
	Mean h	Range	Mean h	Range
S. aureus	34.5	21.5–46.8	28.2	19.6–47.0
S. epidermidis	80.7	23.9–160.9	38.3	21.6–72.5
Coagulase-negative staphylococci	121.1	25.9–217.4	51.4	21.4–72.2
Enterococcus spp.	156.6	95.9–217.4	33.6	23.4–47.7
Streptococcus spp.	196.6	42.3–502.6	51.0	23.4–69.2

The difference in time between BC-GP result and final culture-based identification and susceptibility results.