“…Some of the microbial groups linked to MIC include SRB, methanogens, sulphur-oxidising bacteria, nitratereducing bacteria, and iron-oxidising bacteria (Li et al, 2013). Genera representing the above-mentioned groups that have been studied using MALDI-TOF MS include Pseudomonas (Anderson et al, 2012;Seng et al, 2013;Vithanage, Yeager, Jadhav, Palombo, & Datta, 2014), Desulfovibrio (Barreau, Pagnier, & La Scola, 2013;Justesen et al, 2012;Seng et al, 2013), Desulfitobacterium (Krader & Emerson, 2004), Methanothermobacter and Methanococcus (Krader & Emerson, 2004), and Sphingomonas (Seng et al, 2013). Since the commercial databases were originally developed for the identification of clinically significant pathogens, they have incomplete representation of environmental microorganisms (Kopcakova et al, 2014).…”