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1092. Tuning Down Clostridioides difficile PCR Sensitivity Reduces Treatment for C. difficile Infection in Toxin-Negative Patients With No Increase in Adverse Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that toxin detection identifies those who require treatment for C. difficile infection (CDI) and free toxin can be predicted with high negative predictive value from PCR cycle threshold (CT). CT-toxin was introduced at our institution in two phases: from October 2016 t...

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Publicat a:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autors principals: Hitchcock, Matthew, Holubar, Marisa, Tompkins, Lucy, Banaei, Niaz
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Oxford University Press 2018
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255294/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.927
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