Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020
Research
Multicenter Prevalence Study Comparing Molecular and Toxin Assays for Clostridioides difficile Surveillance, Switzerland
Andreas F. Widmer, Reno Frei, Ed J. Kuijper, Mark H. Wilcox, Ruth Schindler, Violeta Spaniol, Daniel Goldenberger, Adrian Egli, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter
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Table 1
Demographic data for 242 patients whose stool samples were included in the study of detection of Clostridioides difficile via PCR and enzyme immunoassay for glutamate dehydrogenase and A and B toxins, Switzerland*
| Demographics | All patients | Method of Clostridioides difficile detection |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| EIA for GDH and A and B toxins, n = 21 | PCR, n = 30 | ||
| Median age, y (IQR) |
63 (44–80) |
79 (59–86) |
78 (55–85) |
| Sex | |||
| M | 104 (43.0) | 6 (28.6) | 10 (33.3) |
| F | 131 (54.1) | 15 (71.4) | 20 (66.7) |
| Not reported |
7 (2.9) |
0 |
0 |
| Clinical specialty | |||
| Medical | 127 (52.5) | 11 (52.4) | 11 (36.7) |
| Surgery | 43 (17.8) | 3 (14.3) | 6 (20.0) |
| Obstetrics, gynocology | 3 (1.2) | 0 | 0 |
| Pediatrics | 21 (8.7) | 1 (4.8) | 3 (10.0) |
| Other | 28 (11.6) | 5 (23.8) | 7 (23.3) |
| Not reported | 20 (8.3) | 1 (4.8) | 3 (10.0) |
| Intensive care | 40 (16.5) | 5 (23.8) | 5 (16.7) |
*Values are reported as no. (%) except where indicated. EIA, enzyme immunoassay; GDH, glutamate dehydrogenase; IQR, Interquartile range.
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