839. Effect of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Toxin Test Reporting on Clinical Treatment and Outcomes of Toxin-Negative PCR-Positive Patients at Five California Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Guidelines support the use of toxin tests after C. difficile antigen detection or nucleic acid amplification tests (e.g., PCR) to help clinicians distinguish colonization from infection and reduce overdiagnosis but the safety of toxin-based diagnostic approaches remains controversial. ME...

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Publicado no:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Polage, Christopher R, Grein, Jonathan, Morgan, Margie, Doernberg, Sarah B, Miller, Steve, Chinn, Raymond, Woerle, Cathy, Yim, Jennifer, Bittencourt, Cassiana, Krishna, Sneha, Anne Ocampo, Nicolle, Gibbs, Laurel, Mabalot, Shannon C, Quan, Kathleen A, Khusbu, Usme, Madey, Keith M, Ganzon, Czarina, Memar, Fatemeh, Pascual, Christian B, Cohen, Stuart, Liu, Catherine, Yokoe, Deborah S, Huang, Susan S
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809020/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz359.024
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