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Yasuka Hara1, Kiwamu Nakamura1, Daiki Tanno2
1Department of Infection Control, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
Abstract:
We tested the accuracy of quenching probe-polymerase chain reaction (QP-PCR) for detecting Clostridioides difficile toxin B gene (tcdB) in stools from inpatients with suspected C. difficile infection and compared the results with other nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). Toxigenic culture results were used as reference for comparison. QP-PCR had comparable diagnostic accuracy with other NAATs and prior bead-beating enabled detection of tcdB in specimens judged as negative, without bead-beating. Taken together, the QP-PCR either with or without bead-beating showed sufficient effectiveness for detecting tcdB in stool specimens.
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