What is the most rapid confirmatory test for diagnosing Clostridium difficile infection?
What is the most rapid confirmatory test for diagnosing Clostridium difficile infection? While nucleic acid amplification of C. difficile toxin genes in stool remains an option, toxigenic culture is by far the most commonly recommended confirmatory method, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in fact recommends culture in addition to direct fecal toxin testing (5, 8, 13, 20, 26). What is Clostridium difficile assay? difficile toxin. It is a test that looks for the effects of the cytotoxin (cytotoxicity) on human cells grown in culture. It is a sensitive method to detect toxin, but it requires 24 to...