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Clostridium difficile Nosocomial Infections -- Still Lethal and Persistent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph Silva Jr
Joseph Silva Jr*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California
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University of California, Davis, Room 6312, 2315 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95816
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1994 , pp. 368 - 370
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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