The construction and evaluation of reference spectra for the identification of human pathogenic microorganisms by MALDI-TOF MS.

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is an emerging technique for the rapid and high-throughput identification of microorganisms. There remains a dearth of studies in which a large number of pathogenic microorganisms from a particular country or...

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Main Authors: Di Xiao, Changyun Ye, Huifang Zhang, Biao Kan, Jingxing Lu, Jianguo Xu, Xiugao Jiang, Fei Zhao, Yuanhai You, Xiaomei Yan, Duochun Wang, Yuan Hu, Maojun Zhang, Jianzhong Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4152241?pdf=render