Identification of rare pathogenic bacteria in a clinical microbiology laboratory: Impact of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2182-2194

  Seng, Piseth ^a,b   Abat, Cedric ^a,b   Rolain, Jean Marc ^a,b   Colson, Philippe ^a,b   Lagier, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Gouriet, Frédérique ^a,b   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a,b   Drancourt, Michel ^a,b   Scola, Bernard La ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES EUROPAES; ACTINOMYCES RADINGAE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDETES; BREVIBACTERIUM RAVENSPURGENSE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM ARGENTORATENSE; CORYNEBACTERIUM CONFUSUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM COYLEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM FASTIDIOSUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM IMITANS; CORYNEBACTERIUM KROPPENSTEDTII; CORYNEBACTERIUM MUCIFACIENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM RIEGELII; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREICELERIVORANS; COST; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER KOBEI; ENTEROCOCCUS; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBACTERIUM AURUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PANDORAEA PULMONICOLA; PEPTONIPHILUS HAREI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RARE SPECIES; RPOB GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CRICETI; STREPTOCOCCUS PERORIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84879428313     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00492-13     Document Type: Article

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