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Clostridium difficile – misconceptions about testing
Confine testing to symptomatic patients. Testing of patients with formed stools may generate false positives due to asymptomatic carriage of toxigenic strains. An unfortunate side effect of multiplex PCR stool assays, are that tests that are inappropriate to the clinical circumstance may be performed, generating false positives. Also test at-risk (i.e. antibiotic or ppi-exposed) symptomatic […]
AIMED - Let's talk about antibiotics 