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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 10, Pages 3656-3658Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05115-11
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- Stavanger University Hospital [500808]
- Estonian Ministry of Education and Research [SF0180132s08]
- Estonian Science Foundation [7933]
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Comparing culture- and non-culture-based methods for quantifying Clostridium difficile in antibiotic-associated- diarrhea patients, we found that the real-time PCR method correlated well with quantitative culture and was more sensitive. A positive association between the population levels of C. difficile and the presence of its toxins was found.
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