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. Copyright © 2014, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Luk, S., To, W. K., Ng, T. K., Hui, W. T., Lee, W. K., Lau, F., & Ching, A. M. W. (2014). A cost-effective approach for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile: Toxigenic culture using ChromID Clostridium difficile agar. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 52(2), 671–673. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03113-13
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