First Australian isolation of epidemic Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02644.x