Table 1: Agreement of MALDI-TOF MS with standard biochemical or molecular identifications for Enterococcus spp. using different identification cutoff scores.

Conventional or molecular
identification method
No of isolates Genus ID (score >1.5) Species ID (score >1.7) No ID Genus ID
(score >1.7)
Species ID
(score >2.0)
No ID
Enterococcus faecalis 20 20 20 20 20
Enterococcus faecium 20 20 20 20 20
Enterococcus raffinosus 11 11 11 11 9
Enterococcus gallinarum 7 7 7 7 7
Enterococcus casseliflavus 11 11 11 11 10
Enterococcus avium 11 11 11 11 11
Enterococcus hirae 7 7 7 7 7
Enterococcus mundtii 2 2 2 2 2
Enterococcus devriesei 1 1 1 1 1
Enterococcus durans 5 5 5 5 5
Enterococcus malodoratus 1 1 1 1 1
SubTotal n (%) 96 96 (100%) 96 (100%) 0 (0%) 96 (100%) 93 (95.83%) 0 (0%)