“…Previous studies have reported that MALDI-TOF MS can be used for identification of CRKP (Xu et al, 2017;Centonze et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2020), MRSA (Kim et al, 2019;Wang H.-Y. et al, 2021), VRE (Griffin et al, 2012;Sabenca et al, 2020), and other strains (Sparbier et al, 2012;Kawamoto et al, 2019), but there are only few studies and the conclusions are inconsistent (Lasch et al, 2014;Brackmann et al, 2020;Paskova et al, 2020;Gato et al, 2021).…”