@article{Di Taranto_De Nittis_Fagioni_Rollo_Cella_Antonetti_2015, title={Phenotypic classification of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella through MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry}, volume={30}, url={https://www.pagepressjournals.org/mm/article/view/5015}, DOI={10.4081/mm.2015.5015}, abstractNote={<em>Background</em>. Resistance to carbapenems in <em>Klebsiella</em> <em>pneumoniae</em> infections could compromise therapy efficiency in hospitals. In Italy, the percentage of <em>K</em>. <em>pmeumoniae</em> resistant to carbapenems blood-isolated is 35%. <br /><em>Materials</em> <em>and</em> <em>Methods</em>. Seventy-three multidrug-resistant <em>K</em>. <em>pneumoniae</em> clinical isolates coming from Foggia (Italy) have been phenotypically classified through matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry between February and May 2014 in order to locate an eventual infectious outbreak. <br /><em>Conclusions</em>. Classification of microbial isolates is essential to this purpose and starts from phenotypic methodologies to the most complex genotypic methods. Among these, mass spectrometry utilization appears to be a simple, useful and quick instrument in a clinical microbiology laboratory.}, number={1}, journal={Microbiologia Medica}, author={Di Taranto, Anna and De Nittis, Rosella and Fagioni, Marco and Rollo, Tiziana and Cella, Paola and Antonetti, Raffaele}, year={2015}, month={Jun.} }