Can a toxin gene NAAT be used to predict toxin EIA and the severity of Clostridium difficile infection?

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI) is controversial because of the many laboratory methods available and their lack of ability to distinguish between carriage, mild or severe disease. Here we describe whether a low C. difficile toxin B nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) cycle...

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Autores principales: Garvey, Mark I., Bradley, Craig W., Wilkinson, Martyn A. C., Holden, Elisabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29270290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0283-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29270290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0283-z

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