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Short incubation of positive blood cultures on solid media is now increasingly applied to speed up species identification by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). Although Columbia blood agar (CBA) and chocolate agar (Choc) are widely used, a direct comparison of standard agars is lacking. We therefore compared the time to species identification of blood cultures incubated on CBA, Choc, and MacConkey agar (MAC, for Gram-negative rods). Positive aerobic/anaerobic bloo