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Correlation between fecal calprotectin levels, disease severity and the hypervirulent ribotype 027 strain in patients with Clostridium difficile infection

Avi Peretz, Linda Tkhawkho, Nina Pastukh, Diana Brodsky, C. Halevi, Orna Nitzan

BMC Infectious Diseases · 2016 · 39 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

Our study highlights the fact that fc has a potential role as a biomarker of disease severity and binary toxin producing ribotype associated disease.

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Miao He, Fábio Miyajima, Paul Roberts et al. · Nature Genetics · 2012 · 727 citations · Full text

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