Back to the Basics: Biochemical Testing for Pathogen Identification in the Era of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)

J Clin Microbiol. 2019 Sep 24;57(10):e00498-19. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00498-19. Print 2019 Oct.

Authors

Utsav Pandey¹, Samia N Naccache², Jennifer Dien Bard^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
² LabCorp Diagnostic Laboratories, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA [email protected].
⁴ Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: MALDI-TOF MS; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; biochemicals; misidentification.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Bacterial Typing Techniques*
Humans
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization* / methods
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization* / standards