31 July 2024 : Clinical Research
Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry Reveals Acetoin as a Biomarker for Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
Fuxing Li1ABCDEFG, Yunwei Zheng1ABCDEF, Yanhua Liu1BCDF, Chuwen Zhao12BCDF, Junqi Zhu12BCDF, Yaping Hang1BCDF, Youling Fang12BCDF, Longhua Hu1ABCDEFG*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.944507
Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e944507
Figure 3 The temporal variation patterns of 3-hydroxy-2-butanone (acetoin) emission by K. pneumoniae (standard strains, T0-T4). (A) The temporal variation patterns of 3-hydroxy-2-butanone (acetoin) emission by K. pneumoniae strains when imipenem was not added. (B) The temporal patterns of 3-hydroxy-2-butanone (acetoin) emitted by K. pneumoniae strains when imipenem was added. The free online tool Chiplot (https://www.chiplot.online). ATCC – American Type Culture Collection.






