Clinical microbiology is a conservative laboratory exercise where base technologies introduced in the 19th century remained essentially unaltered. High-tech mass spectrometry (MS) has changed that. Within a few years following its adaptation to microbiological diagnostics, MS has been introduced, embraced, and broadly accepted by clinical microbiology laboratories throughout the world as an innovative tool for definitive bacterial species identification. Herein, we review the current state of the art with respect to this exciting new technology and discuss potential future applications. Copyright

doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00420-12, hdl.handle.net/1765/69651
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

van Belkum, A., Welker, M., Erhard, M., & Chatellier, S. (2012). Biomedical mass spectrometry in today's and tomorrow's clinical microbiology laboratories. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 50(5), 1513–1517. doi:10.1128/JCM.00420-12