Clostridium difficile infection: epidemiology, diagnosis and understanding transmission
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Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection.
TO THE EDITOR—Despite our long-standing interest in earlier tests for Clostridium difficile toxin [1], we believe that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology should simply replace other algorithms for the diagnosis of C. difficile infection, as recently outlined in Clinical Infectious Diseases by Kufelnicka and Kirn [2]. We studied 122 consecutive specimens submitted for C. difficile testin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1759-5045,1759-5053
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2016.25