Clostridium difficile testing algorithms using glutamate dehydrogenase antigen and C. difficile toxin enzyme immunoassays with C. difficile nucleic acid amplification testing increase diagnostic yield in a tertiary pediatric population

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1185-1188

  Ota, Kaede V ^a,b   McGowan, Karin L ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84858603076     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05620-11     Document Type: Article

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