Open AccessDoes Empirical Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Therapy Result in False-Negative CDI Diagnostic Test Results?
Author(s) -
Venkata Sunkesula,
Sirisha Kundrapu,
Christine Muganda,
Ajay K. Sethi,
Curtis J. Donskey
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cit286
Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium difficile , gastroenterology , glutamate dehydrogenase , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , glutamate receptor , receptor
Patients with suspected Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) often receive empirical therapy prior to collection of stool specimens for diagnostic testing. The likelihood that such empirical therapy might result in false-negative CDI test results is unknown.
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