Evaluation of LIAISON® C. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase and LIAISON® C. difficile toxin A and B in Copan FecalSwabTM samples in a three-step algorithm for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection

The presumptive laboratory diagnosis of <em>Clostridium</em> <em>difficile</em> infection is achieved by the means of the detection of a common antigen (glutamate dehydrogenase, GDH) in stool, then confirming the positives either by the detection of toxins A and B or by a molecular test for the detection of pathogenicity <em>locus</em>, encoding for the two toxins and for the binary toxin. A fully automated...