セキ マサフミ   SEK Masafumi
  関 雅文
   所属   埼玉医科大学  医学部 国際医療センター 感染症科・感染制御科
   職種   教授
論文種別 学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 Usefulness of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry to identify pathogens, including polymicrobial samples, directly from blood culture broths
掲載誌名 正式名:Infection and Drug Resistance
ISSNコード:11786973
出版社 Dove Medical Press Ltd.
巻・号・頁 10,115-120頁
著者・共著者 Maya Hariu,Yuji Watanabe,Nozomi Oikawa,Masafumi Seki
発行年月 2017/04
概要 © 2017 Hariu et al. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS) is now widely used to detect pathogens in clinical settings in Japan. Here, we report the ability of TOF-MS to detect bacteria from blood culture (BC) broths, and compare the efficacy of TOF-MS to that of conventional culture methods. Bacteria were correctly detected from 63 monomicrobial samples within 80 minutes; results matched those obtained by conventional BC methods, although the conventional methods took 2–3 days. In addition to the 63 monomicrobial samples, another three polymicrobial samples were tested; notably, the infecting bacteria were not correctly identified in two of these three samples. To better assess the TOF-MS detection of polymicrobial samples, we tested various ratios of mixed broth samples, including combinations of the bacteria that we were unable to detect in clinical samples. Combinations of Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were correctly detected at a culture ratio of 2:1, but not in the 3:1 mixture. These results suggested that TOF-MS is a strong tool for the rapid and correct detection of pathogens from monomicrobial BC samples,
DOI 10.2147/IDR.S132931
PMID 28458566