Rapid micro-organism identification from blood and enrichment fluid cultures using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry following abbreviated incubation on chocolate agar plates in a high-throughput regional microbiology laboratory

Streptococcus agalactiae screening of pregnant women and detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

“…Direct identification from the selective enrichment has successfully been adapted to detect, among others, Salmonella sp. from stool [44], Listeria monocytogenes from food samples [45], or different bacteria from positive blood cultures [46][47][48][49]. Regarding the congruence of the MALDI-TOF MS identification directly from the selective enrichment broth and that from the standard culture-based procedure, our method gave the same results in the 93% of the tests as the standard GBS screening.…”