María C Legaria, Raquel Rollet, Ana Di Martino, Liliana Castello, Claudia Barberis, María A Rossetti, María C Guardati, Liliana Fernández Canigia, Graciela Carloni, Mirta Litterio, Marta Rocchi, Eduardo G Anchart, Fernando M Trejo, Jessica Minnaard, Diana Klajn, Silvia C Predari
The best laboratory diagnostic approach to detect Clostridioides [Clostridium] difficile infection (CDI) is a subject of ongoing debate. With the aim of evaluating four laboratory diagnostic methods, 250 unformed stools from patients with suspected CDI submitted to nine medical center laboratories from November 2010 to December 2011, were studied using: (1) an immunochromatographic rapid assay test that combines the qualitative determination of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) plus toxins A and B (QAB), the CDIFF QUIK CHEK COMPLETE assay; (2) an enzyme immunoassay for qualitative determination of toxins A and B, the RIDASCREEN™ C...
January 2018: Revista Argentina de Microbiología