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Table 2 Concordance between culturing clinical tissue samples using the blood culture bottle (BCB) method and the conventional method

From: Culturing periprosthetic tissue in BacT/Alert® Virtuo blood culture system leads to improved and faster detection of prosthetic joint infections

Method

No. of tissue samples (%)

Conventional

BCB

+

+

32 (20.2)

100 (63.3)

+

12 (7.6)

+

14 (8.9)

Total

 

158 (100)