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Discordant Clostridioides difficile diagnostic assay and treatment practice: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

Lauriane LenggenhagerMarie-Céline ZanellaAntoine PoncetLaurent KaiserJacques Schrenzel
Published in: BMJ open (2020)
The proportion of NAAT+/EIA- patients who received treatment questions the contribution of the EIA for the detection of toxin A/B after NAAT to limit overtreatment. Additional studies are needed to investigate if other factors are associated with the decision to treat.
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