Rapid Stool-Based Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection by Real-Time PCR in a Children's Hospital

Clostridium difficile is a major cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated infectious diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis. Detection of C. difficile by anaerobic bacterial culture and/or cytotoxicity assays has been largely replaced by rapid enzyme immunoassays (EIA). However, due to the lack of s...

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