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Controversies in Clostridium difficile testing
Recent reports of two nosocomial outbreaks of Clostridium difficile-associated disease caused by toxin A-deficient strains emphasize that these strains can cause disease. Laboratories using an assay that detects only toxin A as their primary diagnostic test risk misdiagnosis of cases or outbreaks in...
Autor principal: | Fedorko, Daniel P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Published by Elsevier Inc.
2002
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32287670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0196-4399(02)80020-4 |
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