Insufficient discriminatory power of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for typing of Enterococcus faecium and Staphylococcus aureus isolates

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-69

  Lasch, Peter ^a   Fleige, Carola ^a   Stämmler, Maren ^a   Layer, Franziska ^a   Nübel, Ulrich ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a   Werner, Guido ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outbreak; Population analysis; Typing; VRE

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPEPTIDE; METICILLIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84896534361     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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