Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Loonen AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3318536 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loonen Anne J M AJ Jansz Arjan R AR Bergland Jeandery N B JN Valkenburg Marion M Wolffs Petra F G PF van den Brule Adriaan J C AJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20120111 4
Five methods were compared to determine the most accurate method for identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) (n = 142 strains). Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) showed the best results for rapid and accurate CoNS differentiation (99.3% of strains correctly identified). An alternative to this approach could be Vitek2 combined with partial tuf gene sequencing (100% of strains correctly identified when both methods are per ...[more]