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Identification and typing of the emerging pathogen Candida auris by matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionisation time of flight mass spectrometry |
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| Authors: | Victoria Girard Sandrine Mailler Marion Chetry Céline Vidal Géraldine Durand Alex van Belkum Arnaldo L. Colombo Ferry Hagen Jacques F. Meis Anuradha Chowdhary |
| Affiliation: | 1. R&D Microbiology, bioMérieux, La Balme les Grottes, France;2. R&D Biomathematics, bioMérieux, Grenoble, France;3. Laboratório Especial de Micologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP, S?o Paulo, Brazil;4. Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;5. Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;6. Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Abstract: | Candida auris is an emerging antifungal resistant yeast species causing nosocomial and invasive infections, emphasising the need of improved diagnostics and epidemiological typing methods. We show that MALDI‐TOF VITEK‐MS followed by amplified length polymorphisms allows for accurate species identification and subsequent epidemiological characterisation of strains encountered during potential outbreaks. |
| Keywords: | Candida auris matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionisation‐time of flight mass spectrometry amplified fragment length polymorphism MS VITEK |