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Preventing Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease: Is It Time to Pay the Piper?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Eli N. Perencevich  and
Kerri A. Thom
Eli N. Perencevich*
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland
Kerri A. Thom
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 100 N. Greene Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21201 (eperence@epi.umaryland.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , pp. 829 - 831
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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