Fecal Leukocyte Stain Has Diagnostic Value for Outpatients but Not Inpatients
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Fecal leukocyte stain has diagnostic value for outpatients but not inpatients.
The methylene blue stain for fecal leukocytes (FL) is widely used as an adjunct to slower but more accurate tests of diarrheal etiology, such as stool culture (SCx) or toxin assays for Clostridium difficile. Prior studies investigating the utility of FL for predicting SCx and C. difficile toxin assay (CDTA) results did not evaluate the importance of inpatient versus outpatient status. We conduc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.39.1.266-269.2001