Acute, bacterial diarrhea can be severe and, in some cases, life-threatening. The standard method with which to diagnose acute, infectious diarrhea is bacteriological culture; however, this ...

Background: Current guidelines for screening of colorectal cancer do not offer specific recommendations for cessation of antithrombotic agents prior to fecal occult blood test (FOBT). Aim ...

Ahlquist and colleagues compared the effectiveness of this screening method with FOBT. The researchers point out that the increased sensitivity of stool DNA test 2 was particularly noticeable for ...

Keywords used were (aspirin, ASA, warfarin, or coumadin) and (fecal occult blood test or FOBT). In addition, reference lists of any studies meeting inclusion criteria were reviewed to identify ...