Reliable identification at the species level of Brucella isolates with MALDI-TOF-MS

Florigio Lista, Frans A.G. Reubsaet, Riccardo De Santis, Rene R Parchen, Ad L. de Jong, Jasper Kieboom, Anton L. van der Laaken, Ingrid A.I. Voskamp-Visser, Silvia Fillo, Hugo-Jan Jansen,

BMC Microbiology · 2011 · 92 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

MALDI-TOF-MS can be developed into a fast and reliable identification method for genetically highly related species when potential taxonomic and genetic inconsistencies are taken into consideration during the generation of the reference library.

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