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ArticleFEMS microbiology letters1996

Rapid identification of Streptococcus and Enterococcus species using diffuse reflectance-absorbance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and artificial neural networks.

R Goodacre, E M Timmins, P J Rooney, J J Rowland, D B Kell

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Article in FEMS microbiology letters, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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5 authors.

R GoodacreInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. rrg@aber.ac.uk
E M Timmins
P J Rooney
J J Rowland
D B Kell

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffuse reflectance-absorbance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to analyse 19 hospital isolates which had been identified by conventional means to one Enterococcus faecalis, E. faecium, Streptococcus bovis, S. mitis, S. pneumoniae, or S. pyogenes. Principal components analysis of the FT-IR spectra showed that this 'unsupervised' learning method failed to form six separable clusters (one of each species) and thus could not be used to identify these bacteria base on their FT-IR spectra. By contrast, artificial neural networks (ANNs) could be trained by 'supervised' learning (using the back-propagation algorithm) with the principal components scores of derivatised spectra to recognise the strains from their FT-IR spectra. These results demonstrate that the combination of FT-IR and ANNs provides a rapid, novel and accurate bacterial identification technique.

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Bacterial Typing TechniquesNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsEnterococcusEvaluation Studies as TopicHumansSpecies SpecificitySpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredStreptococcus

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