490. Comparison of Clostridium difficile Infection Outcomes by Diagnostic Testing Method

BACKGROUND: US laboratories are increasingly using nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) to diagnose Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) due to their increased sensitivity over toxin enzyme immunoassays (EIA), but NAATs may be more likely than toxin EIAs to detect colonization rather than true d...

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Autores principales: Guh, Alice, Hatfield, Kelly, Winston, Lisa G, Martin, Brittany, Johnston, Helen, Brousseau, Geoff, Farley, Monica M, Wilson, Lucy E, Perlmutter, Rebecca, Phipps, Erin C, Dumyati, Ghinwa, Nelson, Deborah, Hatwar, Trupti, Kainer, Marion A, McDonald, L Clifford
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253298/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.499

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