LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the 22nd ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) in London, Bruker announces new protocols and reference libraries for mycobacteria and multicellular fungi to further extend the microbial coverage of the MALDI Biotyper system for MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based microbial identification. Both groups of microorganisms pose major problems to private and public health care systems. Nowadays, bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, for example, are reported again in countries again where they were thought to be eradicated. Nontuberculosis mycobacteria can cause severe health problems, especially in immune-compromised and senior patients.
