The use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for rapid bacterial identification in patients with smear-positive bacterial meningitis

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8744908	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	2018	16 Pages	PDF

Abstract

We found MALDI-TOF-MS to be useful in the rapid identification of Gram-negative rods directly from smear-positive CSF samples, but not of Gram-positive bacteria.

Keywords

Postneurosurgical Diagnosis Cerebral Spinal Fluid MALDI-TOF-MS Meningitis Gram-negative rods

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The use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for rapid bacterial identification in patients with smear-positive bacterial meningitis

Authors

B. Bishop, Y. Geffen, A. Plaut, O. Kassis, R. Bitterman, M. Paul, A. Neuberger,