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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
Published on: July 11, 2016
Evaluation of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for identification of anaerobic bacteria
M J Barba1, A Fernández1, M Oviaño1
1Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Spain.
Abstract:
In this study MALDI-TOF MS was evaluated in the identification of anaerobic bacteria comparing it with Rapid ID 32A system. Discrepancies were solved by 16S r-RNA gene sequencing. At the species level MALDI-TOF MS identified 94.82% and Rapid ID 32A 86.67%, showing the superiority of MALDI-TOF MS to conventional methods.
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