Performance evaluation and further development of the PCR and microarray-based Prove-it™ Sepsis assay

Table 1 Bacteria and an antibacterial resistance marker identified by the Prove-it™ Sepsis assay

Gram-negative	Gram-positive	Antibacterial resistance
Neisseria meningitidis	Staphylococcus aureus	Methicillin resistance marker mecA
Enterobacter aerogenes	Staphylococcus epidermidis
Enterobacter cloacae	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus ^d
Escherichia coli	Streptococcus pyogenes
Klebsiella oxytoca	Streptococcus agalactiae
Klebsiella pneumoniae	Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis
Proteus mirabilis	Streptococcus pneumoniae
Proteus vulgaris	Enterococcus faecalis
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica^a	Enterococcus faecium
Serratia marcescens	Listeria monocytogenes
Enterobacteriaceae family ^b	Clostridium perfringens
Acinetobacter baumannii
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Haemophilus influenzae
Campylobacter jejuni/coli
Bacteroides fragilis group^c

^aSalmonella enterica subsp. enterica covers at least the following serovars: Enteritidis, Oranienburg, Othmarschen, Paratyphi, Stanley, Typhi, Typhimurium, Virchow, Group A, B, C, D. ^bEnterobacteriaceae covers at least the following species: Citrobacter amalonaticus, Citrobacter freundii, Citrobacter koseri, Citrobacter braakii, Enterobacter hormaechei, Enterobacter sakazakii, Kluyvera intermedia, Morganella morganii, Pantoea agglomerans, Providencia rettgeri, Providencia stuartii, Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. ^cBacteroides fragilis covers at least the following species: B. fragilis, B. vulgatus, B. thetaiotaomicron. ^dCoagulase-negative Staphylococcus covers at least the following species: S. capitis, S. lugdunensis, S. haemolyticus, S. hominis, S. saprophyticus, S. warneri, S. xylosus.

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