Identification of Aspergillus Conidia in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Using Offline Combination of Capillary Electrophoresis in Supercritical Water-Treated Fused Silica Capillary and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

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Authors

SALPLACHTA Jiri HORKA Marie KARASEK Pavel RŮŽIČKA Filip ROTH Michal

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Analytical chemistry
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00165#
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00165
Keywords MALDI-TOF MS; SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS; DIFFERENT INTERNAL DIAMETERS; INVASIVE FUNGAL-INFECTIONS; DESORPTION IONIZATION-TIME; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT; DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; NEUTRAL ANALYTES; 2 SEGMENTS; MICROORGANISMS
Description Diagnosis of fungal infection in lung parenchyma is relatively difficult. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage is very useful in its diagnosing. Therefore, a method for rapid online concentration and analysis of Aspergillus conidia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid using the combination of transient isotachophoresis (tITP) and micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) with subsequent off-line identification of the separated conidia by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is described in this study. In the proposed procedure, conidia were first dynamically adhered onto the roughened part of the inner surface of a fused silica capillary prepared by etching with supercritical water. Then the adhered conidia were desorbed, concentrated, and separated using a combination of tITP and MEKC. Finally, the fractions containing the separated conidia were collected from the capillary and analyzed by MALDI-TOF MS. The adhesion efficiency under the optimized experimental conditions was about 80%. This rapid diagnosis will contribute to timely initiation of therapy and increase the patient's chances of survival.
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