ID Learning Unit: Understanding and Interpreting Testing for Clostridium difficile

Understanding and interpreting the molecular tests for Clostridium difficile is challenging because there are several different types of assays and most laboratories combine multiple tests in order to assess for presence of disease. This learning unit demonstrates the basic principles of each test a...

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Autores principales: Solomon, Daniel A., Milner, Danny A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25734081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu007
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description Understanding and interpreting the molecular tests for Clostridium difficile is challenging because there are several different types of assays and most laboratories combine multiple tests in order to assess for presence of disease. This learning unit demonstrates the basic principles of each test along with its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrates how the tests are used in clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-43242082015-03-02 ID Learning Unit: Understanding and Interpreting Testing for Clostridium difficile Solomon, Daniel A. Milner, Danny A. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Understanding and interpreting the molecular tests for Clostridium difficile is challenging because there are several different types of assays and most laboratories combine multiple tests in order to assess for presence of disease. This learning unit demonstrates the basic principles of each test along with its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrates how the tests are used in clinical practice. Oxford University Press 2014-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4324208/ /pubmed/25734081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu007 Text en © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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