Latex agglutination test for detection of Clostridium difficile toxin in stool samples
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Latex agglutination test for detection of Clostridium difficile toxin in stool samples.
A total of 163 stool specimens were tested for detection of Clostridium difficile and its toxin by cytotoxicity assay with tissue culture, latex agglutination test, and isolation of the organism. From 33 specimens which were positive for toxin by cytotoxicity, 30 were positive by the latex agglutination test; the organism was isolated from 21. The total number of samples which were positive wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.20.3.339-341.1984