“…The species-level agreement was the same species-level result obtained by both MALDI-TOF MS instrument methods, and due to the limitations of MALDI-TOF MS, bacteria that were known to be difficult to identify accurately at the species level were compared at the complex level. Acinetobacter baumannii complex [18,19] (A. baumannii, A. pittii, A. nosocomialis, A. lactucae, and A. calcoaceticus), Citrobacter freundii complex [20] (C. freundii, C. koseri, C. braakii, C. youngae, C. werkmanii, C. sedlakii, C. amalonaticus, and C. farmeri), Enterobacter clocae complex [21] (E. cloacae, E. asburiae, E. hormaechei, E. kobei, E. ludwigii, and E. nimipressuralis), Klebsiella pneumoniae complex [22] (K. pneumoniae, K. quasipneumoniae, and K. variicola), and Burkholderia cepacia complex [23] (B. cepacia, B. cenocepacia, B. metallica, etc.) were compared in complex results.…”