Antifungal Susceptibility Patterns, In Vitro Production of Virulence Factors, and Evaluation of Diagnostic Modalities for the Speciation of Pathogenic Candida from Blood Stream Infections and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

Table 1

Diagnostic accuracies of Vitek 2 Compact and HiCrome Agar in comparison with PCR.

Species (𝑁)*; (Total = 105)	Vitek 2 Compact		HiCrome Agar
	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
	Confidence intervals (95%)		Confidence intervals (95%)
C. albicans (41)	93; (81–98)	100; (94–100)	100; (91–100)	91; (83–96)
C. tropicalis (30)	100; (88–100)	95; (88–98)	88; (72–96)	100; (95–100)
C. parapsilosis (18)	100; (82–100)	98.8; (94–99)	79; (72–100)	100; (96–100)
C. glabrata (13)	100; (75–100)	100; (96–100)	100; (76–100)	100; (92–99)
C. krusei (3)	100; (30–100)	100; (96–100)	100; (30–100)	100; (96–100)
Measure of agreement (𝜅)	0.895		0.826

∗Number of isolates identified using the species-specific PCR (reference method for speciation in our study).