Identifying Clinically Relevant Bacteria Directly from Culture and Clinical Samples with a Handheld Mass Spectrometry Probe.
Sydney C PovilaitisAshish ChakrabortyLindsey M KirkpatrickRachel D DowneySarmistha B HaugerLivia Schiavinato EberlinPublished in: Clinical chemistry (2022)
The MasSpec Pen enables identification of several bacteria at different taxonomic levels in seconds from cultured samples and has potential for culture-independent identification of bacteria directly from clinical samples based on the detection of metabolic species.