MALDI Biotyper
Identifying Microorganism by Their Molecular Fingerprints: Food Safety.
The MALDI Biotyper (MBT) is the market-leading system for microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. It is widely used in industrial microbiology, animal health, food safety and its IVD and FDA-cleared versions are changing the paradigm in clinical microbiology. With nearly 1,200 customer systems, the MBT platform has become an accepted laboratory-standard for next-generation microbial identification and emerging further high-value functional assays. The RUO and IVD-CE versions cover a broad range of about 2,300 species with more than 5,600 well-characterized microbial isolates from gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, yeasts, multicellular fungi and mycobacteria.
Microbial identification with the MALDI Biotyper is done using proteomic fingerprinting.The characteristic patterns of these highly abundant proteins are used to reliably and accurately identify a particular microorganism by matching the respective pattern with an extensive open database to determine the identity of the microorganism down to the species level.
Unique species-specific patterns are automatically compared with reference spectra in the MALDI Biotyper library.
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