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Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis ; 26(2): 115-9, 2007 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17211606

ABSTRACT

Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated disease continues to be difficult for clinical microbiology laboratories. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of three enzyme immunoassays for detection of C. difficile toxins A and B: the recently marketed rapid enzyme immunoassay Ridascreen Clostridium difficile Toxin A/B (R-Biopharm, Darmstadt, Germany) and two established enzyme immunoassays, the C. difficile Tox A/B II Assay (TechLab, Blacksburg, VA, USA) and the ProSpecT C. difficile Toxin A/B Microplate Assay (Remel, Lenexa, KS, USA). Stool specimens (n = 383) from patients with a clinical diagnosis of antibiotic-associated diarrhea were examined by these three enzyme immunoassays and were additionally cultured for C. difficile on selective agar. Samples giving discordant enzyme immunoassay results underwent confirmatory testing by tissue culture cytotoxin B assay and by PCR for toxin A (tcdA) and toxin B (tcdB) genes from C. difficile. Using the criteria adopted for this study, 60 (15.7%) samples tested positive for toxins A and/or B. Sensitivity and specificity of the enzyme immunoassays were, respectively, 88.3 and 100% for the TechLab enzyme immunoassay, 91.7 and 100% for the R-Biopharm enzyme immunoassay, and 93.3 and 100% for the Remel enzyme immunoassay. The differences between these results are statistically not significant (p > 0.05). The results show that all three enzyme immunoassays are acceptable tests for the detection of C. difficile toxins A and B directly in fecal specimens or in toxigenic cultures.


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Bacterial Proteins/analysis , Bacterial Toxins/analysis , Clostridioides difficile/metabolism , Enterotoxins/analysis , Feces/chemistry , Immunoenzyme Techniques/methods , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Toxins/genetics , Clostridioides difficile/genetics , Clostridioides difficile/immunology , Clostridioides difficile/isolation & purification , Culture Media , Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/diagnosis , Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/microbiology , Enterotoxins/genetics , Humans , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Reagent Kits, Diagnostic , Sensitivity and Specificity
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