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Rev Med Suisse
; 11(489): 1840-3, 2015 Oct 07.
Article
in French
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26638514
ABSTRACT
The clinical microbiology laboratory plays an essential role in the management of Clostri- dium difficile infections, showing an increase in frequency and severity. Many tests (culture, EIA, PCR), detecting bacteria or their antigens, toxin genes or free toxins, allow the microbio- logist to provide the clinician and the infection control specialist with a reliable diagnosis as- sistance, which meet essential criteria for ra- pidity, sensitivity and specificity. This review presents the diagnostic algorithms currently used.