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Table 1 Sensitivity and specificity of agar screening plates and the Etest macromethod

From: A multi-center blinded study on the efficiency of phenotypic screening methods to detect glycopeptide intermediately susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (GISA) and heterogeneous GISA (h-GISA)

 

correctly identified (%)

 

BHI-van

MH-van

MH-teico

Etest

Overall Sensitivity

44.4

25.3

90.3

99.0

Overall Specificity

68.4

58.7

92.1

93.3

h-GISA

    

Sensitivity

4.5

1.0

85.0

98.5

GISA

    

Sensitivity

85.9

50.5

95.8

99.5