Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection: What Works?
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Prevention of healthcare‐associated Clostridium difficile infection: what works?
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1086/655985