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Rapid Identification of Staphylococci from Prosthetic Joint Infections Using MALDI-TOF Mass-Spectrometry
1 Sept 2010
Abstract excerpt
Hospital-acquired infections associated with implanted medical devices are most commonly caused by staphylococci. Current methods of species identification are slow, costly, and sometimes unreliable. We evaluated the ability of a Bruker Daltonics Microflex MALDI-TOF/MS in conjunction with MALDI Biotyper software to identify 158 characterized staphylococcal isolates from prosthetic joint infections, including 36...
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