Discrimination of Strains from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci and Other Pathogens by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.

is an extremely infectious and malignant pathogen among many bacteria species. The aim of this work is to provide a robust classification model that would be able to identify independent of the culture growth stage and the variations in bacteria concentration in suspension and also one that would be able to identify the pathogen among both taxonomically close species of the same genus and taxonomically distant species of different genera, using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). In total, the spectra of 141 isolates of 17 bacteria have been used.