False Negative Results in Clostridium difficile Testing

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High Molecular Weight Typing with MALDI-TOF MS - A Novel Method for Rapid Typing of Clostridium difficile

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Clinical Characteristics of Patients Who Test Positive for Clostridium difficile by Repeat PCR

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Multicenter Evaluation of the Quidel Lyra Direct C. difficile Nucleic Acid Amplification Assay

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Indeterminate tcdB using a Clostridium difficile PCR assay: a retrospective cohort study

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Does Empirical Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Therapy Result in False-Negative CDI Diagnostic Test Results?

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Comparison of Simplexa Universal Direct PCR with Cytotoxicity Assay for Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection: Performance, Cost, and Correlation with Disease

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Multicenter Evaluation of the Verigene Clostridium difficile Nucleic Acid Assay

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Correlation between Clostridium difficile Bacterial Load, Commercial Real-Time PCR Cycle Thresholds, and Results of Diagnostic Tests Based on Enzyme Immunoassay and Cell Culture Cytotoxicity Assay

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Differences in outcome according to Clostridium difficile testing method: a prospective multicentre diagnostic validation study of C difficile infection

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Comparison of Analytical and Clinical Performance of Three Methods for Detection ofClostridium difficile

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Comparison of eight commercial enzyme immunoassays for the detection of Clostridium difficile from stool samples and effect of strain type

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

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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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Reference assays for Clostridium difficile infection: one or two gold standards?

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Comparison of Nine Commercially Available Clostridium difficile Toxin Detection Assays, a Real-Time PCR Assay for C. difficile tcdB, and a Glutamate Dehydrogenase Detection Assay to Cytotoxin Testing and Cytotoxigenic Culture Methods

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