Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Community-Onset Clostridium difficile Infection who Tested Positive by EIA Compared with NAAT through a Two-Step Algorithm

BACKGROUND: The low sensitivity of toxin enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) motivated many laboratories to add nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) to their testing protocol. However, NAAT do not distinguish between colonization and infection, and...

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Autores principales: Phipps, Erin C, Kenslow, Nicole, Belovarski, Ioan, Hancock, Emily B
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/PMC5631582/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.983

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