Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 Nov 21;7(12):593. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7120593

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2019 by the authors.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

Schematic representation of possible MALDI-TOF MS spectra patterns for direct determination and identification of antimicrobial resistance. (A) Sensitive strain. (B) Detection of antimicrobial resistance by the detection of metabolites related to the degradation of the antibiotic. (C) Detection of antimicrobial resistance by the detection of a peak shift, which could be related to a mutation in the biomarker gene that confers antimicrobial resistance (AMR). (D) Detection of antimicrobial resistance by the detection of unique biomarkers, which could be related to the production of a specific molecule (e.g., enzymes, porins). (*) Peak differences in comparison with the sensitive strain spectra (A).