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Is Diarrhea Enough to Assess the Severity of Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. Raffat Jaber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California
Mark Reeves
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California
James Couperus
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California Division of Infectious Diseases, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California
*
Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11370 Anderson St., Room 1513, Loma Linda, CA 92354 (Mjaber@llu.edu)
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Abstract

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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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