Evaluation of the HB&L System for the Microbiological Screening of Storage Medium for Organ-Cultured Corneas

Table 1

Isolated pathogens in comparative study between BACTEC and HB&L methods.

	HB&L+	HB&L−
BACTEC+	Staphylococcus spp. (46); Enterococcus spp. (22); Streptococcus spp. (3); Kocuria kristinae (4); Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6); Acinetobacter baumannii (5); Escherichia coli (4); Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (4); Proteus mirabilis (2); Achromobacter xylosoxidans (1); Brevundimonas diminuta (2); Candida spp. (33); Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1); Trichosporum asahii (1); Total: 134 microorganisms (in 127 samples)	Fusarium spp. (3); Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (2); Aspergillus fumigatus (1); Total: 6 microorganisms (in 6 samples)
BACTEC−	Staphylococcus spp. (13); Candida albicans (1); Total: 14 microorganisms (in 13 samples)	Total: 10,508