Table 1.
Comparison of the diagnostic methods for C. difficile infections in this study.
Fig 1.
A proposed GDH-based workflow for laboratory diagnosis of C. difficile infections (CDI).
Abbreviations in the figure: GDH, glutamate dehydrogenase. Cell cytotoxicity neutralization assay or toxigenic culture could be used as alternative testing methods for determining toxigenicity of C. difficile where molecular methods were not available.
Table 2.
MLST sequence types (STs), allelic profiles and toxin gene profiles of the 112 C. difficile culture positive clinical isolates.