Correlation between tcdB gene PCR cycle threshold and severe Clostridium difficile disease.

Correlation between tcdB gene PCR cycle threshold and severe Clostridium difficile disease. Anaerobe. 2019 Jun 26;: Authors: De Francesco MA, Lorenzin G, Piccinelli G, Corbellini S, Bonfanti C, Caruso A Abstract A retrospective study, including all samples tested for Clostridium difficile from 2015 to 2018, was conducted. 222 and 199 patients were respectively classified as having a mild/moderate or severe disease. A CT ≤ 26 was significantly associated with severe disease. Furthermore, low CT values were significantly associated to older patients and leukocytosis. PMID: 31254653 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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