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A Protein Microarray Assay for Serological Determination of Antigen-specific Antibody Responses Following Clostridium difficile Infection
Published on: June 15, 2018
Comparison of commercial molecular assays for toxigenic Clostridium difficile detection in stools: BD GeneOhm Cdiff,
Céline Viala1, Alban Le Monnier, Naouale Maataoui
1Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Bondy, France.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|May 9, 2012
Abstract:
Three commercial molecular assays were evaluated for toxigenic Clostridium difficile detection in stools. As compared to toxigenic culture, BD GeneOhm Cdiff (BD Diagnostics), XPert C. difficile (Cepheid) and illumigene C. difficile (Meridian Bioscience) demonstrated respectively a sensitivity of 95.5%, 97.8% and 86.7% and a specificity of 97.9%, 97.9% and 100%.
