Rapid discrimination of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST175
isolates involved in a nosocomial outbreak using MALDI-TOF Mass
Spectrometry and FTIR Spectroscopy coupled with Machine Learning
Ana Candela1,2*, Manuel J. Arroyo3,
María Sánchez-Cueto1,2, Mercedes
Marín1,2,4,5, Emilia
Cercenado1,2,4,5, Gema Méndez3,
Patricia Muñoz1,2,4,5, Luis
Mancera3, David
Rodríguez-Temporal1,2*, Belén
Rodríguez-Sánchez1,2
1Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid,
Spain.
2Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio
Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
3Clover Bioanalytical Software, Av. del Conocimiento,
41 18016 Granada, Spain.
4CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES
CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain.
5Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
†These authors contributed equally to the study.