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142. When You Can't Call It Colonization, Consider Cutting It Out: Mitigating Panels of Unusual Size to Improve C. difficile Diagnostic Specificity

BACKGROUND: The BioFire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel (GIPP) tests for 22 potential pathogens in stool, including Clostridioides difficile. C. difficile nucleic acid is detected via nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting toxin A (TcdA) and/or toxin B (TcdB) genes. While PCR-b...

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Autores principales: Ilges, Dan, Grant, Leah, Huang, Angela, Siebeneck, Eric, Castro, John, Seville, Maria T, Grys, Thomas, Speiser, Lisa, Graf, Erin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10678114/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad500.215