New methods of microbiological identification using MALDI-TOF
Rapid diagnosis of pathogens is decisive to guarantee adequate therapy in infections: culture methods are precise and sensitive, but rather slow. New resources are available to enable faster diagnosis, and the most promising is MALDI-TOF technology: mass spectrometry applied to microbiological diagn...
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Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Einstein (São Paulo) |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082012000100026&tlng=en |