Fig 1.
Schematic representation of the diagnostic workflow.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the 77 patients (80 joints) analyzed.
Table 2.
Microorganisms identified by diagnostic testing of synovial fluid in positive blood culture bottles using direct MALDI-TOF MS, routine MALDI-TOF MS, and conventional swabs.
Table 3.
Discordant identification of organisms between each method.
Fig 2.
Median time to identification of microorganisms.
The error bars represent the 25th and 75th percentiles. * Significant Bonferroni-adjusted pairwise comparisons compared to the routine MALDI-TOF MS. Δ Significant Bonferroni-adjusted pairwise comparisons compared to the swabs.