Rapidly predicting vancomycin resistance of Enterococcus faecium through MALDI-TOF MS spectra obtained in real-world clinical microbiology laboratory
H.-Y. Wang, K.-P. Lu, C.-R. Chung, Y.-J. Tseng, T.-Y. Lee, T.-H. Chang, M.-H. Wu, T.-W. Lin, T.-P. Liu, J.-J. Lu
This study develops a machine learning algorithm using MALDI-TOF MS spectra to rapidly and accurately predict vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium isolates, improving antibiotic use accuracy by 30%.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology