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CNS isolated from four-bottle blood culture sets
| Clinical significance | No. of cultures (%) positive in:
|
Total no. of cultures | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bottle | 2 bottles | 3 bottles | 4 bottles | ||
| Sepsis | 17 (11) | 18 (30) | 12 (34) | 17 (37) | 64 |
| Contaminant | 127 (78) | 33 (55) | 17 (49) | 20 (43) | 197 |
| Indeterminate | 18 (11) | 9 (15) | 6 (17) | 9 (20) | 42 |
