C. diff Molecular Detection Creates 56% Increase in Reported Infections

Hospitals that switched C. diff testing from nonmolecular to molecular methods recorded a 56 percent increase in recorded C. diff cases after the change, according to an article published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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