Research Article

Rapid Discrimination of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST175 Isolates Involved in a Nosocomial Outbreak Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and FTIR Spectroscopy Coupled with Machine Learning

Figure 4

Principal component analysis scatter plot obtained by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. (a) Plot according to sequence type (ST) of isolates obtained by IR Biotyper Software. (b) Plot according to ST obtained by Clover MS Data Analysis Software. (c) Plot according to whole-genome sequencing (WGS) outbreak groups obtained by IR Biotyper Software. (d) Plot according to WGS groups obtained by Clover MS Data Analysis Software.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)