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The accuracy and feasibility of directly identifying pathogens in positive blood cultures by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been intensely confirmed. In this study, we combined density centrifugation and extra chemical lysis-extraction to develop an optimized method in the blood culture process, which significantly improved the effectiveness of direct identification by MALDI-TOF MS. The accuracy was evaluated by 2,032 positive blood culture samples (115 species of microorganism). The overall MALDI-TOF MS based identification rate with scores \u2265 1.700 was 87.60%. 94.06% of gram-negative bacteria were identified consistently to the genus level, followed by anaerobes (93.33%), gram-positive bacteria (84.46%), and fungi (60.87%). 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