Clostridium difficile: responding to a new threat from an old enemy

Editorial

L Clifford McDonald. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2005 Aug.

. 2005 Aug;26(8):672-5.

doi: 10.1086/502600.

No abstract available

Comment on

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