Table 3.

Estimated annual costs for the standard protocol and MALDI protocol

Item	Standard protocol cost ($)	MALDI protocol cost ($)
Annual reagent costs	158,645.33	29,613.84
Annual labor costs (based on reagent time)	31,323.98	26,669.34
Fixed annual costs of MALDI protocola		31,272.53
Totalb	189,969.31	87,555.70

^aSee Table S5 in the supplemental material.

^bThe total costs for all items are shown in boldface type.