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Integrating Gut Microbiota and Host Immune Markers for Highly Accurate Diagnosis of Clostridioides difficile Infection

2020-05-03 gastroenterology Title + abstract only
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Exposure to Clostridioides difficile can result in asymptomatic carriage or infection with symptoms ranging from mild diarrhea to fulminant pseudomembranous colitis. A reliable diagnostic approach for C. difficile infection (CDI) remains controversial. Accurate diagnosis is paramount not only for patient management but also for epidemiology and disease research. Here, we characterized gut microbial compositions and a broad panel of innate and adaptive immunological markers in 243 well-characteri...

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