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Research Article

Evaluation of four pretreatment procedures for MALDI-TOF MS yeast identification in the routine clinical laboratory

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Pages 371-377 | Received 18 Apr 2012, Accepted 09 Aug 2012, Published online: 16 Sep 2012

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