Real-time polymerase chain reaction method for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile from stools and presumptive identification of NAP1 clone

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-123

  Jayaratne, Padman A ^a,b   Monkman, Lori ^b   Broukhanski, George ^c,d   Pillai, Dillan R ^c,d   Lee, Christine ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON REGIONAL LABORATORY MEDICINE PROGRAM   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detection; NAP1 Clone; Real time PCR; Toxigenic Clostridium difficile

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CDTA GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RRNB GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TCDC GENE; TURNAROUND TIME;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ONTARIO; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84872492647     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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