Menetelmä hypervirulentin Clostridium difficile -kannan läsnäolon osoittamiseksi

摘要

The present invention provides a nucleic acid amplification based method for detecting a hypervirulent Clostridium difficile strain in a biological sample. The present invention is based on the use of oligonucleotide primers and probes specific to negative and positive markers in hypervirulent Clostridium difficile genome.