BREMEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prior to the 61st Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology on September 20-23, 2009 in Goettingen, Bruker Daltonics announces a new framework agreement with the Limbach laboratory network, concerning microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. According to the agreement, Bruker Daltonics will be the exclusive provider of MALDI-TOF based microbial identification solutions for the Limbach network of more than 30 European clinical laboratories.