| Literature DB >> 22090401 |
Teresa Spanu1, Brunella Posteraro, Barbara Fiori, Tiziana D'Inzeo, Serena Campoli, Alberto Ruggeri, Mario Tumbarello, Giulia Canu, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Gabriella Parisi, Mirella Tronci, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Giovanni Fadda.
Abstract
We evaluated the reliability of the Bruker Daltonik's MALDI Biotyper system in species-level identification of yeasts directly from blood culture bottles. Identification results were concordant with those of the conventional culture-based method for 95.9% of Candida albicans (187/195) and 86.5% of non-albicans Candida species (128/148). Results were available in 30 min (median), suggesting that this approach is a reliable, time-saving tool for routine identification of Candida species causing bloodstream infection.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22090401 PMCID: PMC3256727 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05742-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948