A Cost-Effective Approach for Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile: Toxigenic Culture Using ChromID Clostridium difficile Agar |
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| Authors: | Shik Luk Wing Kin To Tak Keung Ng Wai Ting Hui Wing Keung Lee Florence Lau Almond Man Wai Ching |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, China |
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| 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. |
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