Development of an improved rapid BACpro® protocol and a method for direct identification from blood-culture-positive bottles using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8420413	Journal of Microbiological Methods	2018	7 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The improved protocol is effective in blood culture rapid identification, being both simpler and having an improved identification performance compared with the original.

Keywords

MALDI-TOF VMS VITEK MS HLR Copolymer matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight Direct identification Mass spectrometry Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry MALDI Biotyper Blood culture

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Life Sciences Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biotechnology

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Development of an improved rapid BACpro® protocol and a method for direct identification from blood-culture-positive bottles using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Authors

Takatoshi Yonezawa, Tomohisa Watari, Kazuho Ashizawa, Daisuke Hanada, Takako Yanagiya, Naoki Watanabe, Takashi Terada, Yutaka Tomoda, Satoshi Fujii,