A streamlined method for the fast and cost-effective detection of bacterial pathogens from positive blood cultures for the BacT/ALERT blood culture system using the Vitek MS mass spectrometer

• Johannes Forster ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: forster_j1@ukw.de

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8138-5891

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• Britta Kohlmorgen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Julian Haas,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hahn-Schickard- Society for Applied Research, Ulm, Germany

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• Philipp Weis,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim, Germany

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• Lukas Breunig,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine – Cardiology, DRK Klinikum Berlin Westend, Berlin, Germany

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• Doris Turnwald,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Boris Mizaikoff,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Hahn-Schickard- Society for Applied Research, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Christoph Schoen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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