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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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Autores principales: Hitchcock, Matthew, Holubar, Marisa, Tompkins, Lucy, Banaei, Niaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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