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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 192-195Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03229.x
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BACTEC; BacTALERT; blood culture; direct diagnostic; MALDI-TOF MS
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P>Recently, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been presented as a novel method for the direct identification of bacteria from positive blood culture bottles. The rate of the MALDI TOF MS-based identification in the present study from positive BacT/ALERT (bioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) blood culture bottles was 30%, which is far below the previously reported sensitivities using the BACTEC (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) system. We also found evidence that the Biotyper algorithm did not identify a second pathogen in cases of positive BacT/ALERT blood culture bottles containing two different species.
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