Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesPHENOTYPICAL AND MASS SPECTRAL ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SOME CONTAGIOUS MASTITIS PATHOGENSA. El Behiry, Rasha Nabil Zahran, Eman Marzouk, Musaad Al-DabibMastitis is one of the most economic disease affecting dairy cows worldwide. Identification of mastitis pathogens still depends principally on culture and phenotypical method, which is a difficult and time-consuming. Newly, microbiologists have focused their attention on the use of Mass Spectrometry (MS) for microbial identification, especially Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-Of-Flight (MALDI-TOF). Therefore, this study was designated to … …Current Research in Microbiology, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 29 May 2014 · 8,133 accessesView PDFCite