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Anna Pinar-Méndez1, Sonia Fernández2, David Baquero2

  • 1Aigües de Barcelona, Empresa Metropolitana de Gestió del Cicle Integral de l'Aigua, General Batet 1-7, Barcelona 08028, Spain; Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; The Water Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Water Research
|August 25, 2021
PubMed
Summary

A new drinking water library (DWL) for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) significantly improves bacterial identification in water. This tool aids in the microbiological control of drinking and bottled water quality.

Keywords:
Bacterial identificationBottled waterDistribution networkDrinking waterMALDI-TOF MSSpectra database

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