Table 1

 Comparison of the three blood bottles. Both times to detection in hours and percentage of detection within the 24 hours following inoculation were presented. Results were means of experiments performed in triplicates

+Aerobic/FMycosis IC/FMyco/F Lytic
Time to detection (mean (SD), median, range)13 (9), 13, 1–4614 (19), 11, 1–10822 (24), 14 (5–114)
% of detection within 24 hours (n)91% (40/44)89% (39/44)77% (34/44)