Evaluation of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and MALDI BioTyper in comparison to 16S rDNA sequencing for the identification of bacteria isolated from Arctic sea water.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Anna Maria Timperio, Susanna Gorrasi, Lello Zolla, Massimiliano Fenice
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Arctic; White Sea; Kandalaksha
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181860; https://doaj.org/article/36834dcec8e046a98fba1fd6a1f0bbb5

MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in association with the MALDI BioTyper 3.1 software has been evaluated for the identification and classification of 45 Arctic bacteria isolated from Kandalaksha Bay (White Sea, Russia). The high reliability of this method has been already demonstrated, in clinical microbi...