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Review
. 2012 May;50(5):1513-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00420-12. Epub 2012 Feb 22.

Biomedical mass spectrometry in today's and tomorrow's clinical microbiology laboratories

Alex van Belkum  1 , Martin Welker, Marcel Erhard, Sonia Chatellier
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Review

Biomedical mass spectrometry in today's and tomorrow's clinical microbiology laboratories

Alex van Belkum et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 May.

Abstract

Clinical microbiology is a conservative laboratory exercise where base technologies introduced in the 19th century remained essentially unaltered. High-tech mass spectrometry (MS) has changed that. Within a few years following its adaptation to microbiological diagnostics, MS has been introduced, embraced, and broadly accepted by clinical microbiology laboratories throughout the world as an innovative tool for definitive bacterial species identification. Herein, we review the current state of the art with respect to this exciting new technology and discuss potential future applications.

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