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MEDICAL MYCOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 8, Pages 885-889Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mmy/myw044
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Mould; athroconidial yeasts; fungemia; blood culture; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
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Moulds and arthroconidial yeasts are potential life-threatening agents of fungemia in immunocompromised patients. Fast and accurate identification (ID) of these pathogens hastens initiation of targeted antifungal therapy, thereby improving the patients' prognosis. We describe a new strategy that enabled the identification of moulds and arthroconidial yeasts directly from positive blood cultures by MALDI-TOFmass spectrometry (MS). Positive blood cultures (BCs) with Gram staining showing hyphae and/or arthroconidia were prospectively selected and submitted to an in-house protein extraction protocol. Mass spectra were obtained by Vitek MS (TM) system, and identifications were carried out with in the research use only (RUO) mode with an extended database (SARAMIS (TM) [v.4.12] plus in-house database). Fusarium solani, Fusarium verticillioides, Exophiala dermatitidis, Saprochaete clavata, and Trichosporon asahii had correct species ID by MALDI-TOF MS analysis of positive BCs. All cases were related to critically ill patients with high mortality fungemia and direct ID from positive BCs was helpful for rapid administration of targeted antifungal therapy.
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