Identification of Photorhabdus symbionts by MALDI-TOF MS

Identification of Candida species isolated from vulvovaginitis in Mashhad, Iran by Use of MALDI-TOF MS

Background and Purpose Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common problem in women. The purpose of this study was to identify of Candida species isolated from vulvovaginitis woman suffering vulvovaginitis refered to Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, by use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.  Materials and Methods The 65 clinical samples isolated from Vulvovaginitis women were collected in...

Dossier MALDI - TOF ■ Oligonucleotide analysis by MALDI - MS

Matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALDI) time-offlight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has been successfully used for oligonucleotide sequence confirmation by mass analysis of fragments generated by concentration-dependent exonuclease digestion. This approach is particularly well-suited to the analysis of synthetic DNA due to the relatively short length of the DNA strands. Additionally, an importa...

The application of MALDI-TOF MS for dermatophyte identification.

Dermatophytes are keratinolytic fungi responsible for a wide variety of diseases of the skin, nails and hair of mammals. Their identification is often complicated, labor-intensive and time consuming due to the high degree of intra-species morphological similarity, and also requires scientific knowledge and practice. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that MALDI-TOF MS technique may be a f...

Characterization of fengycin homologues produced by Bacillus subtilis K1 by MALDI-TOF tandem mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS/MS)

Kallow et al: MALDI-TOF MS for Microbial Identification

Immediately after the first MALDI-TOF instrument became available, microbiologists have been investigating its potential as a platform for high throughput identification of microorganisms. A remarkable finding very early in these investigations was that despite the dynamic nature of the bacterial cell, components of the mass spectral profile were sufficiently stable and remained unchanged in sp...