Evaluation of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and toxin A/B rapid tests for Clostridioides (prev. Clostridium) difficile diagnosis in a university hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil - Ramos, Carolina Pantuzza; Lopes, Emily Oliveira; Diniz, Amanda Nádia; Lobato, Francisco Carlos Faria; Vilela, Eduardo Garcia; Silva, Rodrigo Otávio Silveira (Brazilian journal of microbiology, 2020)
Keywords: Algorithms; Bacterial Proteins - analysis; Bacterial Proteins - metabolism; Bacterial Toxins - analysis; Bacterial Toxins - metabolism; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Brazil; Clinical Microbiology - Short Communication; Clostridioides; Clostridioides difficile - chemistry; Clostridioides difficile - enzymology; Clostridioides difficile - metabolism; Clostridium; Clostridium Infections - diagnosis; Clostridium Infections - microbiology; Dehydrogenase; Dehydrogenases; Diagnosis; Diagnostic systems; Diagnostic Tests, Routine - methods; Diarrhea; Enzyme immunoassay; Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - methods; Food Microbiology; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamate Dehydrogenase - analysis; Glutamate Dehydrogenase - metabolism; Hospitals; Hospitals, University; Humans; Immunoassay; Immunoassay - methods; Life Sciences; Medical Microbiology; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Mycology; Nosocomial infection; Sensitivity; Toxin A; Toxins; Brazil; Nosocomial diarrhea; Pseudomembranous colitis