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Does your current diagnostic method
allow you to treat the right patients?
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C. difcile toxins cause
the disease symptoms.
Only a test detecting
active toxin production
can help determine the
course of treatment.
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Colonized C. difcile
carriers are 5-10 times
more common than
patients with active
infections in hospitals.
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Treating carriers is often
ineffective and increases
the risk to the patient of
acquiring a pathogenic
infection.
2,3
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Diarrhea is common
in hospitals and may
lead to a false
C. difcile diagnosis
if a test without toxin
conrmation is used.
1,4
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Even highly sensitive
molecular tests are
unable to differenti
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ate colonized carriers
from patients with
active infections.
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