A cost-effective approach for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile: toxigenic culture using ChromID Clostridium difficile agar.
J Clin Microbiol
; 52(2): 671-3, 2014 Feb.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24478510
ABSTRACT
We evaluated the performance and the cost of toxigenic culture using a commercial chromogenic medium (CDIF) for 538 stool specimens. Compared with real-time PCR, this method was found to detect an additional 9% of positive specimens and result in 61% reduction in material costs, with a trade-off increase in turnaround time of 1 day.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Toxinas Bacterianas
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Clostridioides difficile
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Técnicas Bacteriológicas
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Infecciones por Clostridium
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Medios de Cultivo
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Clin Microbiol
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
China
