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Comparison of new method workflow with traditional culture workflow. In the ideal situation when there is one predominant colony grow from the culture. If there are mixed cultures with different colonies, the time of saving could be two days as the subcultures are needed for pure colony and for identification by conventional method. Workflow 1, conventional culture; workflow 2, new method with MALDI-TOF MS; ID, identification; AST, antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
