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Céline Viala1, Alban Le Monnier, Naouale Maataoui, Clotilde Rousseau, Anne Collignon, Isabelle Poilane.
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Three commercial molecular assays were evaluated for toxigenic Clostridium difficile detection in stools. As compared to toxigenic culture, BD GeneOhm Cdiff (BD Diagnostics), XPert C. difficile (Cepheid) and illumigene C. difficile (Meridian Bioscience) demonstrated respectively a sensitivity of 95.5%, 97.8% and 86.7% and a specificity of 97.9%, 97.9% and 100%.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22565213 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.04.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Microbiol Methods ISSN: 0167-7012 Impact factor: 2.363