Evaluation of a commercial cytotoxicity assay for detection of Clostridium difficile toxin
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 23 (5) , 954-955
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.23.5.954-955.1986
Abstract
A comparative study was performed to determine the accuracy of Clostridium difficile toxin detection. A commercial cytotoxicity assay (Bartels Immunodiagnostic Supply, Bellevue, Wash.) was compared with conventional microcytotoxicity assays, using Vero and MRC-5 cells. The Bartels system was found to be essentially equivalent to conventional cytotoxicity assays currently being performed for routine C. difficile toxin detection.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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