Misidentification of Neisseria polysaccharea as Neisseria meningitidis with the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
² Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA patel.robin@mayo.edu.

Scott A Cunningham et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jun.

. 2014 Jun;52(6):2270-1.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.00664-14. Epub 2014 Apr 2.

¹ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
² Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA patel.robin@mayo.edu.

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Comment in

Microbiology test reliability in differentiation of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria polysaccharea.
Deak E, Green N, Humphries RM. Deak E, et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Sep;52(9):3496. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01703-14. Epub 2014 Jun 25. J Clin Microbiol. 2014. PMID: 24966359 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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