Clostridium difficile Infections in a Canadian Tertiary Care Hospital before and during a Regional Epidemic Associated with the BI/NAP1/027 Strain

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

• Publication date

  2008-06-23

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/AAC.00146-08PMID 18573937PMCID PMC2533448
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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