Evaluation of Factors that may Cause False Positive Growth Signals in Blood Cultures-As the Word 'Factors' will Include Both Microbial and Patients as well as Others : Table 1

Table 1: Blood cultures and disease-related factors that give false positive and true positive reproductive signals.
*According to Mann Whitney U test and Kikare test, n :, N: Real positive blood culture, p: P value.

	False positive blood culture n	True positive blood culture N	p*
Number of patients, n	42	126
Intensive care unit, n(%)	17 (40.5)	39 (31.0)
Hematology service, n(%)	14 (33.3)	24 (19.0)
Other services, n(%)	11 (26.2)	63 (50.0)
Age, mean (range)	55 ± 21.2	47.5 ± 27.8 0.070
Positivity duration, hour, mean (range)	3 (3–66)	20 (3–87)	<0,001
Leukocytes /μL, mean (range)	35950 (2430–411000)	10155 (10-35660)	<0,001
Neutrophil count /μL, mean (range)	25315 (1810-280000)	6935 (0-28660)	<0,001
Neutrophil rate %, mean (range)	85.2 (4-98)	77.9 (0-100)	0.023
Number of immature granulocytes /μL, mean (range)	760 (0-74800)	80 (0-2460)	<0,001
The ratio of immature granulocytes is %, mean (range)	2.1 (0-27)	0.8 (0-28)	<0,001