Table 1.
Clostridium difficile culture, VIDAS GDH, VIDAS CDAB and toxigenic typing results for 504 fecal samples in the study
| Culture result | GDH | CDAB | Toxigenic type (no. of isolates)
|
Total no. of isolates (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A+B+CDT− | A−B+CDT− | A+B+CDT+ | A−B−CDT− | ||||
| Positive | Positive | Positive | 35 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 39 (7.7) |
| Positive | Positive | Equivocal | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 (2.2) |
| Positive | Positive | Negative | 18 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 34 (6.7) |
| Positive | Negative | Negative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (0.2) |
| Negative | Positive | Equivocal | ND | ND | ND | ND | 9 (1.8) |
| Negative | Positive | Negative | ND | ND | ND | ND | 22 (4.4) |
| Negative | Negative | Negative | ND | ND | ND | ND | 388 (77.0) |
Abbreviations: GDH, glutamate dehydrogenase; CDAB, C. difficile toxin A&B; CDT, C. difficile binary toxin; ND, not done.