Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Ann Lab Med. 2019 Mar;39(2):214-217. doi: 10.3343/alm.2019.39.2.214.
Various commercial assays have recently been developed for detecting glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and/or toxin A/B to diagnose infection (CDI). We compared the performance of two assays for the simultaneous detection of GDH and toxin A/B, using 150 stool samples: C. DIFF QUIK CHEK COMPLETE (QCC; TechLab, Blacksburg, VA, USA) and RIDASCREEN GDH (RC-GDH) and Toxin A/B (RC-Toxin A/B; R-Biopharm, Darmstadt, Germany). For GDH detection, QCC and RC-GDH showed satisfactory sensitivity (95.7% and 94.3%, respectively) and specificity (92.5% and 93.8%, respectively) compared with culture. For toxin A/B detection, QCC showed higher sensitivity than RC-Toxin A/B (60.0% vs 33.3%, <0.001) compared with toxigenic culture. When the results of QCC or RC-GDH+RC-Toxin A/B were used as the first step of a two-step algorithm for diagnosing CDI, QCC permitted more accurate discrimination than RC of positive or negative results for CDI (77.3% and 65.3%, respectively). QCC is useful for the simultaneous detection of GDH and toxin A/B as a part of the two-step algorithm for diagnosing CDI.
最近已经开发了各种商业检测方法来检测谷氨酸脱氢酶 (GDH) 和/或毒素 A/B,以诊断 感染 (CDI)。我们比较了两种同时检测 GDH 和毒素 A/B 的检测方法的性能,使用了 150 份粪便样本:C. DIFF QUIK CHEK COMPLETE (QCC; TechLab, Blacksburg, VA, USA) 和 RIDASCREEN GDH (RC-GDH) 和 Toxin A/B (RC-Toxin A/B; R-Biopharm, Darmstadt, Germany)。对于 GDH 检测,QCC 和 RC-GDH 与培养物相比具有令人满意的敏感性(分别为 95.7%和 94.3%)和特异性(分别为 92.5%和 93.8%)。对于毒素 A/B 检测,QCC 比 RC-Toxin A/B 具有更高的敏感性(60.0% vs 33.3%,<0.001),与产毒培养物相比。当 QCC 或 RC-GDH+RC-Toxin A/B 的结果用作诊断 CDI 的两步算法的第一步时,QCC 比 RC 更能准确区分 CDI 的阳性或阴性结果(分别为 77.3%和 65.3%)。QCC 可用于同时检测 GDH 和毒素 A/B,作为诊断 CDI 的两步算法的一部分。