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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
Published on: July 11, 2016
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MALDI-TOF MS is more accurate than VITEK II ANC card and API Rapid ID 32 A system for the identification of
Young Jin Kim1, Si Hyun Kim2, Hyun-Jung Park3
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Anaerobe
|June 15, 2016
Abstract:
All 50 Clostridium difficile strains were definitely identified by Vitek2 system, Rapid ID 32A system, and MALDI-TOF. For 18 non-difficile Clostridium strains, the identification results were correct in 2, 0, and 17 strains by Vitek2, Rapid ID 32A, and MALDI-TOF, respectively [corrected].
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