The Technical and Biological Reproducibility of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) Based Typing: Employment of Bioinformatics in a Multicenter Study

• Michael Oberle,

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Cantonal Hospital of Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Nadia Wohlwend,

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch AG, Berne, Switzerland

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• Daniel Jonas,

  Affiliation Institute for Environmental Health Medicine and Hospital Infection Control, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Florian P. Maurer,

  Current address: Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Geraldine Jost,

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Dianalabs, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Sarah Tschudin-Sutter,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Katleen Vranckx,

  Affiliation Applied Maths NV, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

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• Adrian Egli

  * E-mail: adrian.egli@usb.ch

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Applied Microbiology Research, University of Basel, Basel Switzerland

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