Multicenter Evaluation of a New Screening Test That Detects Clostridium difficile in Fecal Specimens
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- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (8) , 3837-3840
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.8.3837-3840.2004
Abstract
Clostridium difficile causes approximately 25% of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrheas and most cases of pseudomembranous colitis. We evaluated C. DIFF CHEK , a new screening test that detects glutamate dehydrogenase of C. difficile . Our results showed that this test was comparable to PCR in sensitivity and specificity and outperformed bacterial culture.Keywords
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