Evaluation of the BD MAX Cdiff assay for the detection of the toxin B gene of Clostridium difficile out of faecal specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 390-391

  Leitner, Eva ^a   Einetter, Michaela ^a   Grisold, Andrea J ^a   Marth, Egon ^a   Feierl, Gebhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

BD MAX Cdiff; Clostridium difficile; PCR; Toxin

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879190893     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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