Table.3 Agreements within and between susceptibility assays of Nocardia spp. isolates with TMP-SMX
Agreement | aBroth Microdilution Method | Disk Diffusion | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold Standard | Resazurin | OD | |||||
± 1 | ± 2 | ± 1 | ± 2 | ± 1 | ± 2 | ||
Essential | |||||||
Intra-reading | 82.0 | 97.0 | 73.1 | 88.5 | 81.8 | 93.9 | dn.a. |
bInter-reading | ― | ― | 71.7 | 89.8 | 75.0 | 88.6 | dn.a. |
b,cPearson’s r | ― | ― | 0.50 | 0.42 | 0.36 | 0.44 | dn.a. |
(95% CI) | (0.36–0.62) | (0.26–0.55) | (0.20–0.45) | (0.30–0.57) | |||
Categorical | |||||||
Intra-reading | 95.5 | 88.5 | 86.2 | 86.2 | 99.2 | 97.0 | 100.0 |
bInter-reading | ― | ― | 81.1 | 91.3 | 91.7 | 93.9 | 97.7 |
bVery Major Errors | ― | ― | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.33 | 6.06 | 2.27 |
bMajor Errors | ― | ― | 18.9 | 8.66 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |