Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection by toxigenic culture and PCR assay

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Clostridium difficile is responsible for 15–25% of nosocomial antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD) cases and all cases of pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile has two major virulence factors, toxin A (enterotoxin) and toxin B (cytotoxin). The aim of this study was to det...

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Autores principales: Mirzaei, Elnaze Zare, Rajabnia, Mahdi, Sadeghi, Farzin, Ferdosi-Shahandashti, Elaheh, Sadeghi-Haddad-Zavareh, Mahmoud, Khafri, Soraya, Davoodabadi, Abolfazl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30675324

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