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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...
Autores principales: | Peretz, Avi, Tkhawkho, Linda, Pastukh, Nina, Brodsky, Diana, Halevi, Chen Namimi, Nitzan, Orna |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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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 |
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