Leptospira spp. strain identification by MALDI TOF MS is an equivalent tool to 16S rRNA gene sequencing and multi locus sequence typing (MLST)

Table 5 Differentiating peaks based on the statistical analysis of ClinProTools within the species L. borgpetersenii

genomospecies	peak mass (m/z) representing the protein size in Dalton
genomospecies	3,759	5,765	5,779	6,388	7,519	7,547
L. borgpetersenii Ballum	+	-	+	-	+	-
L. borgpetersenii Javanica	+	-	+	-	+	-
L. borgpetersenii Sejroe	+	-	+	-	+	-
L. borgpetersenii Saxkoebing	-	-	+	+	-	+
L. borgpetersenii Tarassovi	+	+	-	+	+	-

The displayed peaks are based on visual comparison of the algorithm analysis results of the software. All strains were screened twice using the QuickClassifier (QC)/Different average and SNN algorithms.
The used symbols stand for:
no peak found: -
peak present: +

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