Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Employing ‘Second Generation’ Matrices....Pages 3-35 Efficient Production of Multiply Charged MALDI Ions....Pages 37-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Ionic Liquids and Other Liquid Matrices for Sensitive MALDI MS Analysis....Pages 51-64 Coupling Liquid MALDI MS to Liquid Chromatography....Pages 65-76 Quantitative MALDI MS Using Ionic Liquid Matrices....Pages 77-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Techniques for Fingermark Analysis Using MALDI MS: A Practical Overview....Pages 93-128 (MA)LDI MS Imaging at High Specificity and Sensitivity....Pages 129-147 Microprobe MS Imaging of Live Tissues, Cells, and Bacterial Colonies Using LAESI....Pages 149-167 MALDESI: Fundamentals, Direct Analysis, and MS Imaging....Pages 169-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Disease Profiling by MALDI MS Analysis of Biofluids....Pages 185-196 MALDI Biotyping for Microorganism Identification in Clinical Microbiology....Pages 197-225 Future Applications of MALDI-TOF MS in Microbiology....Pages 227-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-247 Whole/Intact Cell MALDI MS Biotyping in Mammalian Cell Analysis....Pages 249-262 Food Authentication by MALDI MS: MALDI-TOF MS Analysis of Fish Species....Pages 263-277 Back Matter....Pages 279-286