Comparison of Multilocus Sequence Typing and the Xpert C. difficile/Epi Assay for Identification of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI is the most common C. difficile strain in the United States. The Xpert C. difficile/Epi assay allows rapid, presumptive identification of C. difficile NAP1. We compared Xpert C. difficile/Epi to multilocus sequence typing for identification of C. difficile NAP1 and found "very good" agreement at 97.9% (κ = 0.86; 95% confidence interval, 0.80 to 0.91).

publication date

  • December 23, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4767941

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84959560669

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/JCM.03075-15

PubMed ID

  • 26699700

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 54

issue

  • 3