A Cost-Effective Approach for Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile: Toxigenic Culture Using ChromID Clostridium difficile Agar

We evaluated the performance and the cost of toxigenic culture using a commercial chromogenic medium (CDIF) for 538 stool specimens. Compared with real-time PCR, this method was found to detect an additional 9% of positive specimens and result in 61% reduction in material costs, with a trade-off inc...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Luk, Shik, To, Wing Kin, Ng, Tak Keung, Hui, Wai Ting, Lee, Wing Keung, Lau, Florence, Ching, Almond Man Wai
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Bacteriology
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3911300/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24478510
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03113-13
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