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Comparison of Multilocus Sequence Typing and the Xpert C. difficile/Epi Assay for Identification of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI

Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2016) 54(3) 775-778
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03075-15
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Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI is the most common C. difficile strain in the United States. The Xpert C. difficile/Epi assay allows rapid, presumptive identification of C. difficile NAP1. We compared Xpert C. difficile/Epi to multilocus sequence typing for identification of C. difficile NAP1 and found "very good" agreement at 97.9% (0.86; 95% confidence interval, 0.80 to 0.91).

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McMillen, T., Kamboj, M., & Babady, N. E. (2016). Comparison of Multilocus Sequence Typing and the Xpert C. difficile/Epi Assay for Identification of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54(3), 775–778. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03075-15

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