Affiliation:
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
2. Clinical Virology Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
3. Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The BD GeneOhm Cdiff assay, a real-time PCR assay for the detection of the
Clostridium difficile
toxin B (
tcdB
) gene, was compared with the toxin A/B (Tox A/B) II enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and a two-step algorithm which includes a C. Diff Chek-60 glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) antigen assay followed by cytotoxin neutralization. Four hundred liquid or semisolid stool samples submitted for diagnostic
C. difficile
testing, 200 GDH antigen positive and 200 GDH antigen negative, were selected for analysis. All samples were tested by the C. Diff Chek-60 GDH antigen and cytotoxin neutralization assays, the Tox A/B II ELISA, and the BD GeneOhm Cdiff assay. Specimens with discrepant results were tested by toxigenic culture as an independent “gold standard.” Of 200 GDH-positive samples, 71 were positive by the Tox A/B II ELISA, 88 were positive by the two-step method, 93 were positive by PCR, and 96 were positive by the GDH antigen assay only. Of 200 GDH-negative samples, 3 were positive by PCR only. Toxigenic culture was performed for 41 samples with discrepant results, and 39 were culture positive. Culture resolution of discrepant results showed the Tox A/B II assay to have detected 70 (66.7%), the two-step method to have detected 87 (82.9%), and PCR to have detected 96 (91.4%) of 105 true positives. The BD GeneOhm Cdiff assay was more sensitive in detecting toxigenic
C. difficile
than the Tox A/B II assay (
P
< 0.0001); however, the difference between PCR and the two-step method was not significant (
P
= 0.1237). Enhanced sensitivity and rapid turnaround time make the BD GeneOhm Cdiff assay an important advance in the diagnosis of toxigenic
C. difficile
infection.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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