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MICROBES AND INFECTION
Volume 2, Issue 15, Pages 1827-1830Publisher
EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(00)01343-5
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Clostridium difficile toxin; faecal lactoferrin; adjunct usage; asymptomatic carriage
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Clostridium difficile is the primary aetiological agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. The faecal lactoferrin (FL) assay is a simple in vitro test which is highly sensitive to the presence of a marker of polymorphonuclear cells. We evaluated the use of the PL assay in conjunction with the C. difficile toxin assay in faecal samples obtained from 231 adult patients. The relationship between C. difficile toxin and FL in both negative and positive status was highly significant statistically (P < 0.001). Therefore, the FL assay performed simultaneously with the C. difficile toxin assay can help rule out asymptomatic carriage of C. difficile. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.
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