Evaluation of real-time PCR and conventional diagnostic methods for the detection of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in a prospective multicentre study

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-42

  Van Den Berg, Renate J ^a   Vaessen, Norbert ^a   Endtz, Hubert P ^b   Schülin, Tanja ^c   Van Der Vorm, Eric R ^d,e   Kuijper, Ed J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VERO CELLS;

EID: 33845938587     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46680-0     Document Type: Article

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