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PCR Cycle-Threshold-Derived Toxin Identifies Patients at Low-Risk for Complications of C. difficile Infection Who Do Not Require Treatment
BACKGROUND: Literature suggests that toxin detection differentiates those who require treatment for C. difficile infection (CDI) from those who do not. In-house studies have shown that free toxin can be predicted with high negative predictive value at a predefined cycle threshold (CT) using Xpert tc...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630787/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.985 |