Detection of Clostridium difficile toxin genes by PCR: sequence variation may cause false-negative results

J Med Microbiol. 2015 Feb;64(Pt 2):195-197. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.081364-0. Epub 2014 Dec 5.

Bo Cao¹, Yuanyuan Zhang^{2

1}, Funing Bian¹, Ying Cheng³, Jing Wang¹, Hongbing Jia⁴, Wen Zhang^{2

1}, Jinxing Lu^{2

1}, Chen Chen^{2

1}, Pengcheng Du^{2

1}

¹ State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, and National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, PR China.
² Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou 310003, PR China.
³ Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, PR China.
⁴ Department of clinical laboratory, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, PR China.

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