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

Table 4

Sensitivity and specificity results for the identification assignment of clinical isolates using transmission models for six common bacterial pathogens.

	Organisms	E. coli	K. pneumoniae	P. aeruginosa	S. aureus	E. faecalis	CNS	Sens.	Spec.
253	E. coli	237	14	1	0	1	0	93.7%	97.2%
88	K. pneumoniae	9	78	0	0	1	0	88.6%	97.7%
62	P. aeruginosa	5	1	56	0	0	0	90.3%	99.9%
166	S. aureus	0	0	0	145	6	15	87.3%	97.3%
54	E. faecalis	0	0	0	1	51	2	94.4%	98.4%
130	CNS	0	0	0	15	3	112	86.2%	97.3%

: number of clinical isolates for each organism.