Rapid and easy detection of low-level resistance to vancomycin in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

• Kota Asakura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takuya Azechi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Sasano,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hidehito Matsui,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Infection Control Research Center, Kitasato Institute for Life Science, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hideaki Hanaki,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Infection Control Research Center, Kitasato Institute for Life Science, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Motoyasu Miyazaki,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Tohru Takata,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infection Control, Fukuoka University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Miwa Sekine,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomoiku Takaku,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomonori Ochiai,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Norio Komatsu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keigo Shibayama,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuki Katayama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Katayama, Koji Yahara

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: k-yahara@nih.go.jp (KY); yukk@juntendo.ac.jp (YK)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Koji Yahara

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Katayama, Koji Yahara

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: k-yahara@nih.go.jp (KY); yukk@juntendo.ac.jp (YK)

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4289-1115

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