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Pediatric Clostridium difficile Infection: 6-Year Active Surveillance in a Defined Patient Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Nicole Le Saux ,
Denise Gravel ,
Michael R. Mulvey ,
Judy Dennis ,
Abdool S. Yasseen III ,
Nicholas Barrowman  and
Jennifer Bowes
Nicole Le Saux*
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Denise Gravel
Affiliation:
Center for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Michael R. Mulvey
Affiliation:
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Judy Dennis
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Abdool S. Yasseen III
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nicholas Barrowman
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer Bowes
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L1, Canada (lesaux@cheo.on.ca).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 7 , July 2014 , pp. 904 - 906
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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