Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection: Comparison of four methods on specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport medium and tcdB PCR on fresh versus frozen samples

Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-19

  Brown, Noah A ^a   LeBar, William D ^a   Young, Carol L ^a   Hankerd, Rosemary E ^a   Newton, Duane W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cary Blair; Clostridium difficile; Frozen; Glutamate dehydrogenase; PCR

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CARY BLAIR TRANSPORT MEDIUM; CELL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE CYTOTOXICITY NEUTRALIZATION ASSAY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES CULTURE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPORT MEDIUM;

EID: 79955966575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20367449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/idr.2011.e5     Document Type: Article

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