Importance of culture for detection of clostridium difficile toxin from stool samples to report true incidence and mortality related to c. difficile in hospitals

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1134-1135

  Bayardelle, Paul ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349923388     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605596     Document Type: Letter

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