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Abstract
Purpose
The identification of anaerobes, Mycobacterium and Nocardia species, and moulds by MALDI-TOF-MS remains a challenge. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of MALDI-TOF in the identification of these organisms.
Methods
A total of 382 strains, comprising 128 (33.5 %) anaerobes, 126(33.0 %) mycobacterial, 113(29.6 %), mycelial fungi, and 15(3.9 %) Nocardia species were evaluated by VITEK MS Version 3.0. The results were compared with the identification of the isolates by DNA sequence analysis. The DNA sequences used for analysis were the 16S rRNA for anaerobic bacteria, hsp65 gene for mycobacteria, whereas both 16S rRNA and hsp65 gene for Nocardia species, and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and 28S rRNA gene's D1/D2 regions of fungi.
Results
The VITEK-MS accurately identified 78.3 % (299/382) of the strains at the species, and 9.4 % (36/382) at the genus level. Misidentifications were observed in 3.9 % (15/382) isolates. Of isolates tested, 8.4 % (32/382) were not identified by the system, and 7.06 % (27/382) were not included in the IVD database.
Conclusion
An upgraded VITEK MS V3.0 database provides reasonably accurate and rapid identification of clinically relevant anaerobes, mycobacteria, Nocardia species, and moulds to the species level.
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