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A major disadvantage of pretreatment is the prolongation of the turnaround time. The turnaround time for one sample is approximately 5?min for both MS systems, which is prolonged to 35?min with pretreatment. Bacterial identification by Shimadzu MS is based on comparison of the measured spectrum with SuperSpectra and reference spectra. If the percentage of matching peaks is R428 concentration of anaerobic JQ1 datasheet bacteria in clinical microbiology. However, the study was not designed to evaluate the potential advantages of MALDI-TOF identification over currently used methods. If MALDI-TOF MS is applied, simple microbiological tests such as Gram-staining are still required to recognize major errors made by MS. MALDI-TOF systems need optimization, (i) by adding reference spectra of bacteria that are not yet represented, (ii) by expanding the number of available spectra per species, and (iii) by gaining insight into the reasons why identification sometimes fails, even with sufficient reference spectra present in the database. We are confident that this will ultimately lead to a method of rapid identification of most clinically relevant anaerobic bacteria. We thank Petra Dofferhoff for her contribution. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. ""Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates are being increasingly reported, particularly from countries surrounding the Mediterranean area. We aimed to quantify the prevalence E-64 of carbapenemase- and extended-spectrum ��-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in rectal swabs from hospitalized patients in a University hospital in Morocco, and to compare the performance of three screening media: ChromID ESBL (bioM��rieux), Brilliance CRE (OXOID, Thermofisher) and SUPERCARBA (home made). Genetic detection and plasmid analysis were performed by PCR and sequencing. Strain comparison was performed by multi-locus sequence typing and the Diversilab technique (bioM��rieux). The prevalence of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae was high, with 33 ESBL producers (42.85%, mainly CTX-M-15) and 10 OXA-48 producers (13%), corresponding to two major clones of K.?pneumoniae (70%) and a clone of Enterobacter cloacae (30%). The three screening media showed the same sensitivity for detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, whereas the SUPERCARBA medium was more specific than the two other media.