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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
Published on: July 11, 2016
Comparison of the Bruker Microflex LT and Zybio EXS2600 MALDI TOF MS systems for the identification of clinical
Ewelina Sibińska1, Adrian Arendowski1, Piotr Fijałkowski1
1Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4 Str., Toruń 87-100, Poland.
Abstract:
The emergence of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) technology has expanded the capabilities for identifying microorganisms in clinical labs, replacing traditional biochemical testing with a proteomic approach. In the present study, we compared results between the two commercial MALDI TOF MS systems, Bruker Microflex LT Biotyper and Zybio EXS2600 Ex-Accuspec, for the identification of 1979 urinary isolates by direct extraction method. Current study found that both systems identified a high percentage of isolates to at least the genus level - Bruker 95.6 % of isolates, Zybio 92.4 %. In the case of 89.5 % of all analyzed spectra, the identification results were consistent between the used devices. The highest score values and the highest percentage of spectra identified to species were obtained for gram-negative bacteria. The results show that both systems are equally good choices in terms of analytical performance for routine microbiological diagnostic procedures.
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