Torres I, Giménez E, Huntley D, Martínez M, Colomina J, Navarro D
David Navarro, Microbiology Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario, and Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine. Av. Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Rev Esp Quimioter. 2019 Aug;32(4):365-369. Epub 2019 Jul 10.
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass-spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is widely used for fast identification of bacteria from blood cultures (BC). We compared the performance of two procedures, one including a pre-enrichment step in brain heart infusion and the other a direct method using vacutainer separator gel tubes (DI), for identification of bacteria from blood cultures by MALDI-TOF MS.
We first prepared a training set of 20 simulated bacteremia specimens, including 10 Gram-negative and 10 Gram-positive species. A total of 145 non-consecutive BCs flagged as positive (68 Gram-negative rods, and 77 Gram-positive cocci) were prospectively analyzed (validation set).
A total of 82% and 49% of isolates were correctly identified to the species level by the respective methods.
The pre-enrichment method outperformed the DI method for identification of virtually all bacterial species included in the panels.
基质辅助激光解吸/电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)被广泛用于从血培养物(BC)中快速鉴定细菌。我们比较了两种方法的性能,一种方法是在脑心浸液中进行预富集步骤,另一种是使用真空管分离胶管的直接方法(DI),用于通过MALDI-TOF MS从血培养物中鉴定细菌。
我们首先制备了一组包含20个模拟菌血症标本的训练集,其中包括10种革兰氏阴性菌和10种革兰氏阳性菌。前瞻性分析了总共145份标记为阳性的非连续血培养物(验证集)(68株革兰氏阴性杆菌和77株革兰氏阳性球菌)。
通过各自的方法,分别有82%和49%的分离株被正确鉴定到种水平。
对于鉴定面板中几乎所有细菌种类,预富集方法优于DI方法。