Research Article

Insufficient Discriminatory Power of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Dendrograms to Determine the Clonality of Multi-Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from an Intensive Care Unit

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Comparison between PFGE and the MALDI-TOF MS dendrogram using the Spearman rank correlation analysis and dot plots. (a) Comparison between PFGE and the MALDI-TOF MS dendrogram using the direct colony method and (b) comparison between PFGE and the MALDI-TOF MS dendrogram using the protein extraction method.Statistically significant ().
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