Short report: Use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis for rapid confirmation of Burkholderia pseudomallei in septicemic melioidosis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1039-1042

  Inglis, Timothy J J ^a,b   Healy, Paul E ^b   Fremlin, Leith J ^c   Golledge, Clayton L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

^c BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; FATTY ACID ESTER; MEROPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; THIENAMYCIN DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CAMBODIA; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELIOIDOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSE; SEPTICEMIA; THORAX PAIN; TRAVEL; AUSTRALIA; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 84862213102     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0454     Document Type: Article

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