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Detection of asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriage by an alcohol shock procedure
C R Clabots1, S J Gerding, M M Olson
1Infectious Disease Section, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
Direct inoculation to cefoxitin-cycloserine-fructose agar and broth was compared with alcohol shock-chopped meat broth inoculation for optimal detection of Clostridium difficile in fecal samples. Alcohol shock is significantly more sensitive than cefoxitin-cycloserine-fructose agar or broth and may be the method of choice to detect C. difficile in asymptomatic carriers.