Application of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in bacterial typing / 中华检验医学杂志

As a rapid, accurate and high throughput bacterial identification technique, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry(MALDI-TOF MS)has been gradually applied to clinical microbiological laboratories.However, the application of MALDI-TOF MS is far beyond the identification of bacteria.It also has broad application prospect in bacterial typing.The MALDI-TOF MS based typing method is simple, rapid, low-cost and high throughput, which can play an important role in nosocomial infections surveillance.