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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2011

Improved performance of bacterium and yeast identification by a commercial matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry system in the clinical microbiology laboratory.

John Haigh, Amarjeet Degun, Melvyn Eydmann, Michael Millar, Mark Wilks

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evaluating the Autof MS2600 vs. Biotyper Sirius MALDI-TOF MS: a head-to-head study for routine microbial identification in a university clinical microbiology laboratory.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  18. Comparison and optimization of two MALDI-TOF MS platforms for the identification of medically relevant yeast species.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

John Haigh
Amarjeet Degun
Melvyn Eydmann
Michael Millar
Mark Wilks

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BacteriaBacterial InfectionsBacteriological TechniquesHumansSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Identifiers

PMID21734023
PMCPMC3165585

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