TABLE 3.
Yeast isolates identified by MALDI-TOF MS (N = 64), Bloemfontein, South Africa, 15 July 2013 to 30 September 2013.
| Organisms identified by MALDI-TOF MS | No. of isolates identified on other platforms |
Total no. of isolates analysed | Isolates identified by MALDI-TOF MS by score No. (%) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MicroScanMS† | VITEK2 MS‡ | < 1.7 | 1.7–1.99 | > 2.0 | ||
| C. albicans | 14 | 28 | 42 | 15 | 18 | 9 |
| C. parapsilosis | 10 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
| C. glabrata | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| C. tropicalis | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
|
C. dubliensis |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Total | 27 | 37 | 64 | 16 (25.0%) | 32 (50.0%) | 16 (25.0%) |
†
Platform used at academic diagnostic microbiology laboratory, Universitas Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
‡
Platform used at three other laboratories, one at Kimberly Hospital (Northern Cape, South Africa) and two private pathology laboratories (Bloemfontein, South Africa).