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Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Based Method for Discrimination between Molecular Types of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), through the generation of char- acteristic fingerprints of intact microbial cells, has been success- fully applied for the rapid ...
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Prospective Evaluation of a Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System in a Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for Identification of Bacteria and Yeasts: a Bench by Bench Study for Assessing the Impact on Time to Identification and Cost Effectiveness
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been found to be an accu- rate, rapid, and inexpensive method for the identification of bacteria and ...racy, time to ...
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Implementation of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry in Routine Clinical Laboratories Improves Identification of Coagulase Negative Staphylococci and Reveals the Pathogenic Role of Staphylococcus lugdunensis
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for staphylococcal identification is now considered routine in laboratories compared with the conventional phenotypical methods ...
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Dermatophyte Identification Using Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight (MALDI- TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) for the identification of dermatophytes from clinical cultures was compared to that of dermatophyte identification using 28S ...
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Evaluation of a Simple Protein Extraction Method for Species Identification of Clinically Relevant Staphylococci by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been used to identify various microorganisms in clinical laboratories, includ- ing Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative ...
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Advances in Identification of Clinical Yeast Isolates by Use of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a soft ionization technique that generates a protein-based spectral profile or “fingerprint” that is unique to a given ...
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Evaluation of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria from Clinical Isolates
... desorption ionization– time of flight (MALDI-TOF) has been recently applied to the identification of a wide range of microorganisms (2), mainly clin- ically significant bacteria and ...
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Identification of Rare Pathogenic Bacteria in a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Impact of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has been described as a revolutionary tool perfectly adapted to the clinical microbiology laboratory (12, ...
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Differentiation of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Nonpneumococcal Streptococci of the Streptococcus mitis Group by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) fingerprinting has been introduced as a routine microbial identification tool and found widespread acceptance thanks to its broad ...
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Identification of Mycobacteria by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... With the rise of opportunistic pathogens and with several new species being named annually (5, 28, 37, 39, 40), the need to have a rapid and reproducible identification method for a wider range of Mycobacterium species ...
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Identification of clinical dermatophyte isolates obtained from Iran by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
... A new diagnostic approach using the matrix- assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS)-based strategy has facilitated the effective identification of ...
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Evaluation of the Andromas Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System for Identification of Aerobically Growing Gram Positive Bacilli
... Matrix-associated laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a rapid and simple micro- bial identification method. Previous reports using the Biotyper system ...
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Comparison of Two Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Methods with Conventional Phenotypic Identification for Routine Identification of Bacteria to the Species Level
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is another molecular analytic tool which may prove helpful ...around time, low sample volume requirements, and modest ...
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Utility of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry following Introduction for Routine Laboratory Bacterial Identification
... desorption–ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been shown to be both accurate in the identification of bacteria (1, 8, 9) and rapid (5, 10, 11, 13, 14), which is of proven ...
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Mass determination of major plasma proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
... desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI- TOF/MS), invented in the late 1980s (1,2), serves as a technique for analyzing peptides and proteins in relatively complex ...
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Successful Identification of Clinical Dermatophyte and Neoscytalidium Species by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) as a routine tool for identifying dermatophyte and Neoscytalidium species, both of which cause ...
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Identification of Molds by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
... database by Bruker Dal- tonics for the identification of molds grown in liquid media. Interestingly, among the studies since 2011 that reported the use of the MALDI Biotyper for clinical laboratory diagnostics (reviewed ...
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Impact of matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometric evaluation on the clinical outcomes of patients with bacteremia and fungemia in clinical settings lacking an antimicrobial stewardship program: a pre post quasi experimental study
... Several studies have shown that MALDI-TOF MS com- bined with an ASP improved clinical outcomes in patients with positive blood cultures [12 – 18]. Huang et al. [13] re- ported that the use of MALDI-TOF MS combined with ...
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Comparison of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Biology Techniques for Identification of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Biting Midges in Senegal
... a time-consuming procedure, and it is a very difficult task in many cases even for expert taxonomists (28) because of faint characteristics or intraspecific variability ...
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Creation of an In House Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Corynebacterineae Database Overcomes Difficulties in Identification of Nocardia farcinica Clinical Isolates
... best media were glucose-yeast extract agar (medium 79) and blood agar, while BHI medium was the worst (see Table S2 in the supplemental material). For construction of the database, two kinds of solid media were selected ...
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