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Evaluation of Clostridium difficile Fecal Load and Limit of Detection during a Prospective Comparison of Two Molecular Tests, the illumigene C. difficile and Xpert C. difficile/Epi Tests

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Quantification of Clostridium difficile in Antibiotic-Associated-Diarrhea Patients

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MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

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Point-Counterpoint: What Is the Current Role of Algorithmic Approaches for Diagnosis ofClostridium difficileInfection?

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Assessment of Clostridium difficile Infections by Quantitative Detection of tcdB Toxin by Use of a Real-Time Cell Analysis System

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Impact of Strain Type on Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile: Comparison of Molecular Diagnostic and Enzyme Immunoassay Approaches

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Ray: Simultaneous Assembly of Reads from a Mix of High-Throughput Sequencing Technologies

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Comparison of BD GeneOhm Cdiff Real-Time PCR Assay with a Two-Step Algorithm and a Toxin A/B Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Diagnosis of ToxigenicClostridium difficileInfection

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Multilocus Sequence Typing ofClostridium difficile

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