Diagnostics
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay detects C. difficile toxin B gene
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, February 19th, 2006
In a recent study, microbiologists in Japan applied the LAMP assay "to the detection of the toxin B gene (tcdB)" of C. difficile "for identification of toxin B (TcdB)-positive C. difficile strains and detection of tcdB in stool specimens."
According to H. Kato and coauthors at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, "tcdB was detected in all toxin A (TcdA)-positive, TcdB-positive (A+B+) and TcdA-negative, TcdB-positive (A-B+) C. difficile...
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