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ArticleMycopathologia2023

Identification of Clinical Trichosporon asteroides Strains by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: Evaluation of the Bruker Daltonics Commercial System and an In-House Developed Library.

Elaine Cristina Francisco, Mexx Ebbing, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo, Ferry Hagen, Trichosporon Brazilian Network

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Elaine Cristina FranciscoDivision of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, 04024-002, Brazil. elaineperol@yahoo.com.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5530-1332
Mexx EbbingDepartment of Medical Mycology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3460-7033
Arnaldo Lopes ColomboDivision of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, 04024-002, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0793-8491
Ferry HagenDepartment of Medical Mycology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-1916
Trichosporon Brazilian Network

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 484020/2013-7Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2019/24960-0Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2020/14097-0
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Abstract

Trichosporon asteroides is an emerging yeast-like pathogen commonly misidentified by commercial biochemical identification systems. We evaluated the performance of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the identification of 21 clinical T. asteroides strains using the Bruker Daltonics database (BDAL) and an in-house developed library. Mass spectra were obtained by the FlexControl system v.3.4, and characterizations were performed in the Biotyper BDAL database v.4.1 and the developed in-house library. Species identification for T. asteroides failed as all 21 strains were misidentified as T. japonicum (log-scores 1.89-2.19). Extending the existing database was crucial to achieving 100% correct species-level identification and accurate distinction between species. Our results indicate that the commercial BDAL database has no discriminatory power to distinguish between T. japonicum and T. asteroides. Whereas improvement of the current BDAL database is pending, we strongly advise system users not to exclude the possibility of the failure to report T. asteroides.

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Mycological Typing TechniquesSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationTrichosporonTrichosporonosisDatabases, FactualHumansSpecies SpecificityDiagnosticIn house libraryMALDI-TOF MSPathogen identificationTrichosporon

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