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Real-time quantitative PCR method for detection and quantification of Clostridioides difficile cells and spores
Christina M Kohler1, Ana G Quintanar Alfaro2, Randall T Hayden3
1Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|April 13, 2022
Abstract:
A quantitative PCR method was developed for the detection of Clostridioides difficile Chaperonin-60 gene. The method had a specificity for C. difficile strains of clinical and epidemiological importance and allowed for quantification of C. difficile cells and spores.

