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Table 1 Applications of mass spectrometry to laboratory medicine

From: Mass spectrometry-based microbiological testing for blood stream infection

GC/MS

 Toxicology

 Inborn errors of metabolism

 Metabolomics

MALDI-TOF MS

 Clinical microbiology

 Imaging MS

LC/MS/MS

 Inborn errors of metabolism

 Therapeutic drug monitoring

 Toxicology

 Endocrinology

 Targeted metabolomics, peptidomics and proteomics

 Clinical microbiology