Differences in outcome according to Clostridium difficile testing method: a prospective multicentre diagnostic validation study of C difficile infection

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection is controversial because of many laboratory methods, compounded by two reference methods. Cytotoxigenic culture detects toxigenic C difficile and gives a positive result more frequently (eg, because of colonisation, which means that individual...

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Autores principales: Planche, Timothy D, Davies, Kerrie A, Coen, Pietro G, Finney, John M, Monahan, Irene M, Morris, Kirsti A, O'Connor, Lily, Oakley, Sarah J, Pope, Cassie F, Wren, Mike W, Shetty, Nandini P, Crook, Derrick W, Wilcox, Mark H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science ;, The Lancet Pub. Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3822406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24007915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70200-7

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