Comparison of Perirectal versus Rectal Swabs for Detection of Asymptomatic Carriers of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Comparison of Perirectal versus Rectal Swabs for Detection of Asymptomatic Carriers of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile

Published:2013-10 Issue:10 Volume:51 Page:3421-3422
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Rogers David S.¹,Kundrapu Sirisha¹,Sunkesula Venkata C. K.¹,Donskey Curtis J.²

Affiliation:

1. Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

2. Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT For long-term care and spinal cord injury patients, the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of perirectal versus rectal cultures for detection of asymptomatic carriers of Clostridium difficile were 95%, 100%, 100%, and 97%, respectively. Perirectal cultures provide an accurate method to detect asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile .

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01418-13

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