Erratum: Role of fecal Clostridium difficile load in discrepancies between toxin tests and PCR: Is quantitation the next step in C. Difficile testing? (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1695-6);Role of fecal Clostridium difficile load in discrepancies between toxin tests and PCR: Is quantitation the next step in C. Difficile testing?

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3295-3299

  Leslie, J L ^a   Cohen, S H ^a   Solnick, J V ^a   Polage, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL ASSAY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TCDB GENE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872171026     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1721-8     Document Type: Erratum

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