Colonization of infants and hospitalized patients with Clostridium difficile and lactobacilli

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Naaber, Paul ^a   Klaus, Karin ^b   Sepp, Epp ^b   Björksten, Bengt ^b   Mikelsaar, Marika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS;

EID: 0030865958     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516183     Document Type: Article

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