Table 3.

Identification results of the 28 isolates of P. marneffei by MALDI Biotyper based on four newly created databases for P. marneffei.

No. of Isolates (strain designation)	Identification and score values by MALDI Biotyper with newly created database by indicated strains (designation of cluster)
	Species	Score valuesa
		NTUH-3370	NTUH-1124	NTUH-7204	NTUH-9736
1. (NTUH-8873)	P. marneffei	1.986	1.844	2.015	1.900
2. (NTUH-4566)	P. marneffei	2.050	2.029	2.011	1.931
3. (NTUH-4779)	P. marneffei	2.240	2.157	2.233	2.161
4. (NTUH-1124)	P. marneffei	2.464	2.790	2.545	2.313
5. (NTUH-2875)	P. marneffei	2.250	2.238	2.147	1.986
6. (NTUH-1286)	P. marneffei	2.162	2.113	2.266	2.163
7. (NTUH-1710)	P. marneffei	2.113	1.941	1.995	1.897
8. (NTUH-3370)	P. marneffei	2.770	2.481	2.491	2.265
9. (NTUH-1312)	P. marneffei	2.183	2.179	2.271	2.010
10. (NTUH-3937)	P. marneffei	1.809	1.857	1.525	1.821
11. (NTUH-6735)	P. marneffei	2.076	2.139	2.146	1.999
12. (NTUH-7204)	P. marneffei	2.559	2.467	2.831	2.451
13. (NTUH-9258)	P. marneffei	2.090	1.963	2.092	1.954
14. (NTUH-0594)	P. marneffei	2.100	2.046	2.132	2.046
15. (NTUH-9736)	P. marneffei	2.339	2.358	2.442	2.791
16. (NTUH-7483)	P. marneffei	2.289	2.089	2.114	1.918
17. (NTUH-7342)	P. marneffei	1.860	1.982	1.995	1.961
18. (NTUH-7732)	P. marneffei	2.224	2.209	2.191	2.006
19. (NTUH-1294)	P. marneffei	1.964	2.060	2.045	2.059
20. (NTUH-2810)	P. marneffei	2.066	1.940	2.077	1.987
21. (NTUH-0524)	P. marneffei	2.016	1.970	2.028	1.914
22. (NTUH-3286)	P. marneffei	1.880	1.975	1.930	1.942
23. (NTUH-7870)	P. marneffei	2.233	2.004	2.000	1.977
24. (NTUH-5723)	P. marneffei	2.268	2.127	2.143	2.123
25. (NTUH-1440)	P. marneffei	2.061	2.057	1.903	1.909
26. (NTUH-1934)	P. marneffei	2.064	2.056	2.021	2.086
27. (NTUH-0361)	P. marneffei	2.083	2.045	1.996	1.834
28. (NTUH-5587)	P. marneffei	2.102	2.116	2.247	2.186

^aScore values of 1.700–1.999 are shown in boldface and that of <1.700 is underlined.