Know When to Test: Optimizing Diagnostic Practices for Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Among Patients at a Tertiary-Care Cancer Center

BACKGROUND: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based diagnostic testing for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) does not distinguish between carriers and patients with true CDI. As a result, CDI is over-diagnosed in hospitalized patients with diarrhea. Unnecessary testing g...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Hauptverfasser: Aslam, Anoshé, Eagan, Janet, Kaplan, Janice, Robilotti, Elizabeth, McMillen, Tracy, Kamalska-Cyganik, Monika, Kelson, Suzanne, Nevrekar, Reshma, Narain, Wazim, Stetson, Peter, Kamboj, Mini, Babady, N Esther
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631566/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.991
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