The CHROMagar™ C. difficile is a chromogenic material which is used for the color differentiation of Clostridium difficile.
The Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea in adults. These infections occur primarily in patients who have both medical care and antibiotic treatment. Symptoms of infection by C. difficile are fever, abdominal cramps, and severe diarrhea leading to death.
In the United States, nearly 250,000 people are infected with C. difficile with at least 14,000 deaths (CDC estimate, 2013). Due to the emergence of highly toxigenic strains of C. difficile, these infections have become more common and more difficult to treat in recent years. Although PCR has become the leading technique for detecting C. difficile, culture is essential for strain typing and for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
The CHROMagar™ C. difficile is a new fluorogenic culture medium, extremely sensitive and selective, specially designed to simplify and accelerate (24 hours) the cultivation of C. difficile.
