Variability in testing policies and impact on reported Clostridium difficile infection rates: results from the pilot Longitudinal European Clostridium difficile Infection Diagnosis surveillance study (LuCID)

Lack of standardised Clostridium difficile testing is a potential confounder when comparing infection rates. We used an observational, systematic, prospective large-scale sampling approach to investigate variability in C. difficile sampling to understand C. difficile infection (CDI) incidence rates....

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Autores principales: Davies, K., Davis, G., Barbut, F., Eckert, C., Petrosillo, N., Wilcox, M. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27590621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-016-2746-1

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