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Monitoring antibiotic degradation to detect lactamase activity in microbial samples by MALDI-TOF MS. For particular species and types of lactamases the incubation time may require extension avoid false negatives. The technique is in principle applicable to other resistance mechanisms that involve a detectable modification of antibiotics.
