Correlation between fecal calprotectin levels, disease severity and the hypervirulent ribotype 027 strain in patients with Clostridium difficile infection

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile is the most common infectious etiology of nosocomial diarrhea. Fecal calprotectin (fc) is a sensitive marker of intestinal inflammation, found to be associated with enteric bacterial infections and inflammatory bowel disease. METHODS: We evaluated fc levels using a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Peretz, Avi, Tkhawkho, Linda, Pastukh, Nina, Brodsky, Diana, Halevi, Chen Namimi, Nitzan, Orna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27334992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1618-8

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27334992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1618-8

Ejemplares similares