Korean J healthc assoc Infect Control Prev.  2021 Jun;26(1):42-44. 10.14192/kjicp.2021.26.1.42.

Innovation in Clinical Microbiology Testing

• Lee K

• KMID: 2516944
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14192/kjicp.2021.26.1.42

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  Fig. 1 Species Identification by MALDI-TOF.

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  Fig. 2 MALDI-TOF Models introduced in Korea. (A) IVD MBT sirius (Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany), (B) VITEK MS system (bioMérieux, Marcy-l’Étoile, France), (C) MicroIDSys LT (ASTA Corporation, Suwon, Korea).

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  Fig. 3 MALDI-TOF spectra of imipenem hydrolysis assays after a 20-min incubation at 37℃. Peaks of interest in gray represent the imipenem peak at 300 Da and its metabolite at 254 Da. (A) Imipenem, (B) cephalosporinase, (C) ESBL, (D) OXA-48, (E) KPC, (F) NDM.

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