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A cost-effective approach for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile: toxigenic culture using ChromID
Shik Luk1, Wing Kin To, Tak Keung Ng
1Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 31, 2014
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.
