Diagnostic accuracy of real-time polymerase chain reaction in detection of clostridium difficile in the stool samples of patients with suspected clostridium difficile infection: A meta-analysis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Deshpande, Abhishek ^a   Pasupuleti, Vinay ^a   Rolston, David D K ^b   Jain, Anil ^a,c   Deshpande, Narayan ^d   Pant, Chaitanya ^e   Hernandez, Adrian V ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MED Institute   (United States)

^d Bhaskar Medical College   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL ASSAY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DATA EXTRACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052444456     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir505     Document Type: Article

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