Pushing the Limits of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: Beyond Fungal Species Identification
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...complex and requires access to validated purpose-built databases of reference spectra (6, 7)....
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...Consequently, the majority of MALDI-TOF analyses of fungi so far have dealt with clinical isolates [33]....
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...selected colonies, the presence/absence of conidia, and agar contamination of the analyte, depending on the extent of agar invasion [48]....
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...dimerum, only failing in the case of species not represented in the reference database [32]....
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...In fact, several reports indicate poor identification of phenotypically indistinguishable species due to the paucity of representative spectra in the database [30,31] or to the need to modify score thresholds for validated identification [32,33]....
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...Attempts were first made with bacteria, and successful MALDI-TOF MS typing examples have been reported for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains [26], Arthrobacter [81], Salmonella [82], and Legionella strains [83]....
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...identification of most of the above mentioned species groups currently depends on molecular methods, as biochemical ones do not allow for their discrimination [44]....
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