Table 1.
Process of the Magicplex Sepsis Real-time Test.
Fig 1.
Flow-chart of study inclusion and overall results.
Table 2.
Age, gender, and rate of positive blood culture (BC) and positive Magicplex Sepsis Test (MST) in the study population.
Table 3.
Positive results for MagicPlex Sepsis Test (MST) and/or blood culture (BC), for different species.
Fig 2.
Cq values of specimens positive with the Magicplex Sepsis test (MST).
Comparison of median Cq values between blood culture negative and blood culture positive samples among all MST positive samples, and samples with MST positive for Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Escherichia coli.
Table 4.
Sensitivities, specificities and predictive values of the Magicplex Sepsis Test (MST) at different cut-off Cq values for blood culture (BC) positivity, for the three most commonly detected sepsis-causing pathogens.
Table 5.
Sensitivities, specificities and predictive values of the Magicplex Sepsis Test (MST) at different Cq cut-off values for predicting blood culture (BC) positivity, global results for all detected pathogens.
Table 6.
Polymicrobial or disconcordant findings in blood culture and in Magicplex Sepsis Test (MST) when the Cq cut-off was set at Ct <6.0 for staphylococci and <9.0 for all other pathogens.