High Rate of Positive Fecal Occult Blood Test in Healthy Infants: A Nested Case-control Study
Healthy asymptomatic infants in early infancy were gFOBT positive up to 11% of the time. Caution should be used when interpreting gFOBT results in young infants in a diagnostic setting.
Authors
- Tung‐Tien Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-1063)
- Victoria Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-9564)
- Fatema Ali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-8706)
- Yamini V. Virkud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7328-7215)
- Wayne G. Shreffler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-137X)
- Yuan Qian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3728-7119)
- Arif Raza Khan
- Isabel O’Connell
- Aaron Jaynes
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital (US)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Translational Gastroenterology
- Published
- 2025-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14218/jtg.2025.00026
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases