Multicenter Evaluation of the Clostridium difficile TOX A/B TEST
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.1.184-190.1998