Bacterial Identification by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
Commercial MALDI TOF Systems for Microbial Identification

February 2012
Multiple commercial platforms are available. The most studied system is that from Bruker Daltonics, and includes a mass spectrometer along with the "Biotype"” software and database. Another system uses a Shimadzu Axima Assurance mass spectrometer with Launchpad software and the AnagnosTec GmbH (SARAMIS) database. This system was recently acquired by bioMérieux and is being redeveloped and called "VITEK MS." Yet another system, Andromas, is used mostly in Europe. The last 2 systems exclusively use cell lysis on the target plate (without off-plate extraction).
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- Introduction
- Objectives
- How Does Mass Spectrometry Work?
- Types of Mass Spectrometry
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry - Bruker Biotyper
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
- Time of Flight
- Mass Spectrum Generated Compared with Library (Database)
- Commercial MALDI TOF Systems for Microbial Identification
- MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry Preparatory Extraction*
- Bacterial Identification by Mass Spectrometry
- Bacterial Identification by MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry1
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Bruker Biotyper MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer versus BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli2
- Identification of Gram-Positive Cocci by Bruker Biotyper Mass Spectrometry3
- Identification of Gram-Positive Cocci by Bruker Biotyper Mass Spectrometry3
- Gram-Positive Cocci3
- Gram-Positive Cocci3
- Misidentification by Bruker Biotyper3
- MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry: Strengths
- MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry: Limitations
- Bacteriology Laboratory Workflow Today
- Workflow with Mass Spectrometry
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Questions


