Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections pose a significant public health challenge
worldwide, affecting individuals across a wide spectrum of immune statuses. Recent …

BACKGROUND Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease is increasing
globally. 1 Pulmonary infections are typically opportunistic and associated with immune …

The ability of MALDI-TOF for the identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has
improved recently thanks to updated databases and optimized protein extraction …

Objective To evaluate the performance and validate the diagnostic value of a nucleotide
matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) with the …

Mycobacterium abscessus is one of the most common and pathogenic nontuberculous
mycobacteria (NTM) isolated in clinical laboratories. It consists of three subspecies: M …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) identification is essential for establishing the relevance
of the isolate and for appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Traditionally, NTM identification is …

ABSTRACT The Bruker Biotyper matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time-of-flight
mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) platform was assessed on its ability to accurately …

Over the last years, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have emerged as important human
pathogens. Accurate and rapid mycobacterial species identification is needed to …

微生物的鉴定方法有很多种, 这些方法基于表型, 免疫学, 遗传学等, 目前普遍采用16S rRNA
和18S rRNA 基因测序为标准, 但这些方法也有一些局限性, 费时费力, 操作复杂 …

In nature, bacteria prevailingly reside in the form of biofilms. These elaborately organized
surface-bound assemblages of bacterial cells show numerous features of multicellular …