Association of decreased serum protein fractions with Clostridium difficile infection in the acute care setting: A case-control study

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 663-669

  Salazar Kagunye, Raquel ^a   Shah, Anish ^a,b   Loshkajian, Gina ^c   Baddoura, Walid ^a,b   Debari, Vincent A ^a,b  

^a ST JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University School of Medicine St George's   (Grenada)

Author keywords

albumin; biomarker; Clostridium difficile; colitis; diarrhea; globulin; nosocomial infection; serum protein

Indexed keywords

GLOBULIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN GLOBULIN RATIO; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM GLOBULINS;

EID: 84867648350     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: 17520371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.12.52     Document Type: Article

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