MALDI-TOF and Tandem MS for Clinical Microbiology

<p>This book highlights the triumph of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry over the past decade and provides insight into new and expanding technologies through a comprehensive range of short chapters that enable the reader to gauge their current status and how they may progress over the next decade.  This book serves as a platform to consolidate current strengths of the technology and highlight new frontiers in tandem MS/MS that are likely to eventually supersede MALDI-TOF MS. Chapters discuss:<br />Challenges of Identifying Mycobacterium to the Species level <br />Identification of <i>Bacteroides</i> and Other Clinically Relevant Anaerobes<br />Identification of Species in Mixed Microbial Populations<br />Detection of Resistance Mechanisms<br />Proteomics as a biomarker discovery and validation platform<br />Determination of Antimicrobial Resistance using Tandem Mass Spectrometry</p>