Line of Service-Specific Performance and Antibiotic Prescribing Habits Following Introduction of a Two-Step Diagnostic Approach Using NAAT Followed by Enzyme Immunoassay in Cancer Patients with Suspected Clostridium difficile Infection

BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer are at an increased risk for C. difficile infection (CDI). A two-step approach with a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) followed by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) increases diagnostic sensitivity and specificity and can be used to guide antibiotic therapy. We retrospe...

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Autores principales: Chao, Andrew, Yalamanchili, Harika, Guevara, Eduardo Yepez, Bhatti, Micah, Aitken, Samuel L, Okhuysen, Pablo
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/PMC5631509/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.982

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