Comparison of Multilocus Sequence Typing and the Xpert C. difficile/Epi Assay for Identification of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI | Zendy

Tracy McMillen | Zendy; Mini Kamboj | Zendy; N. Esther Babady | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Tracy McMillen,

Mini Kamboj,

N. Esther Babady

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.03075-15

Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , c difficile , multilocus sequence typing , identification (biology) , microbiology and biotechnology , typing , medicine , biology , genetics , genotype , gene , antibiotics , botany

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

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