MALDI-TOF Microbial Identification

Identifies many cultured microbial isolates within minutes by matching MALDI-TOF protein mass fingerprints against a validated reference database, often to species level but not universally.

References

• Croxatto, A., Prod'hom, G., Greub, G. "Applications of MALDI-TOF." Clinical Microbiology Reviews 25, no. 3 (2012): 466–490.