Once you’ve treated someone for C. diff, I would not check a C. diff PCR to document clearance. If symptoms are suggestive of recurrent C. diff infection, then get the test.

In another study, researchers showed that levels of C difficile detected with PCR were much, much lower than those detected with other methods of testing (J Clin Microbiol. 2013;51:3624-3630).

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The average difference in time to obtain the test result after the PCR lab order between nurses and physicians was also statistically significant after the change (mean [sd]; 1.2 (0.7) vs. 1.3 (0. ...

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One of the leading causes of hospital-related deaths and a significant public health threat, C. diff caused half a million infections and almost 30,000 deaths in the United States in 2012.

If they’d both missed specimen 12, for instance, it might mean the concentration of C. diff spores in the stool sample was too low. But that was not the case.