MALDI-TOF

In recent years, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry has emerged as a potential tool for microbial identification and diagnosis. During the MALDI-TOF MS process, microbes are identified using either intact cells or cell extracts. The process is rapid, sensitive, and economical in terms of both labor and costs involved.

The MALDI-TOF can be used for a number of purposes, microbial identification and strain typing, fungal typing, epidemiological studies, detection of water- and food-borne pathogens, detection of antibiotic resistance and detection of blood and urinary tract pathogens etc.