How Does MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Help a Patient with an Acute

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Multiple Choice

How does MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry help a patient with an acute infection? (Select all that apply)

• A) The procedure can identify pathogens in 1 hour versus 24-28 hours using conventional lab methods.
• B) It produces a patient sample spectrum that is compared to other spectra stored in an existing instrument database for very accurate pathogen identification.
• C) It can identify pathogens using a number of microbial colonies growing on a plate.
• D) Preparation time for this procedure is only 1 minute compared to the 10+ minutes needed to use other microbial analyzers.

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