Sandrine Mailler

TL;DR: It is shown that MALDI‐TOF VITEK‐MS followed by amplified length polymorphisms allows for accurate species identification and subsequent epidemiological characterisation of strains encountered during potential outbreaks.

TL;DR: A new method to infer the composition of polymicrobial samples on the basis of a single mass spectrum using a penalized non-negative linear regression framework making use of species-specific prototypes, which can be derived directly from the routine reference database of pure spectra.

TL;DR: Application of a specific sample preparation method in combination with a robust matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) database leads to 94% accurate identification to the species level on a set of 164 isolates.

TL;DR: A comparison of three methods of MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry for the rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections based on their performance of bacterial identification and their potential as a routine tool for microbiology labs found one to be a potentially better fit to the routine workflow of microbiology laboratories.

TL;DR: It is found that VRE-BMX provided improved recovery of VRE from stool specimens, with the added advantage of being able to differentiate between vancomycin-resistant E. faecium and E. Faecalis, a feature useful for infection control purposes that is not a function of BEAV.