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Laboratory tests for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection: Past, present, and futurePruebas de laboratorio para el diagnóstico de la infección por Clostridium difficile: pasado, presente y futuro

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Funding

This study was partially financed by grants from Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa C/03/14 (REIPI) and Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS 2007/PI-0770869).

Acknowledgment

I thank Tom O’Boyle for his help in the preparation of the manuscript.

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    The lower NPV for the conventional procedure was anticipated where there was an increased prevalence of C. difficile in the sampled population. In recent years, significant effort has been devoted to the development of diagnostic procedures for the rapid detection of C. difficile and/or its toxins in human and animal faeces (Keessen et al., 2011a; Alcalá, 2013). In this regard, culture-independent techniques, such as enzyme immunoassays and/or conventional/RT-PCR methods, have be proposed as attractive alternatives for the routine detection of C. difficile-associated infection (CDAI) in human medicine (Gumerlock et al., 1993; Bélanger et al., 2003; Snell et al., 2004; Luna et al., 2011).

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