Research Article
Comparative Study of Clostridium difficile Clinical Detection Methods in Patients with Diarrhoea
Table 6
Comparison of the area under the ROC curve between the toxin detection methods of 79 specimens.
| Method | Z value | value | Area under the curve |
| The toxigenic culture | 1.426 | 0.1539 | 1.000 | The GeneXpert C. difficile PCR assay | 0.984 |
| The toxigenic culture | 3.000 | 0.0027 | 1.000 | The VIDAS enzyme immunoassay | 0.813 |
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