Skip to main content
. 2017 Dec 8;6(1):598. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v6i1.598

TABLE 6.

Four polymicrobial blood cultures and direct identification by MALDI-TOF MS (N = 4), Bloemfontein, South Africa, 15 July 2013 to 30 September 2013.

Conventional laboratory identification Direct MALDI-TOF MS identification
A. baumanii & E. faecium E. faecium
CNS & A. baumanii S. epidermidis
A. baumanii & Enterococcus spp E. avium
CNS & C. koseri C. koseri

CNS, coagulase negative staphylococci