Progress in proteomics for clinical microbiology: MALDI-TOF MS for microbial species identification and more

Expert Review of Proteomics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 595-605

  Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Chatellier, Sonia ^a   Girard, Victoria ^a   Pincus, David ^a   Deol, Parampal ^a   Dunne, Wm Michael ^a  

^a BIOMÉRIEUX   (France)

Author keywords

antimicrobial susceptibility testing; clinical microbiology; epidemiology; identification; MALDI TOF MS; matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FUNGAL STRAIN; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOULD; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; REVIEW; RNA GENE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VALIDATION STUDY; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES;

MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PROTEOMICS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84947489371     PISSN: 14789450     EISSN: 17448387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2015.1091731     Document Type: Review

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