Misidentification of Neisseria polysaccharea as Neisseria meningitidis with the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.
Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Scott A
SA
Cunningham
Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Jill M
JM
Mainella
Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA patel.robin@mayo.edu.
Robin
R
Patel
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D009343:Neisseria / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016870:Neisseriaceae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*