Control of nosocomial Clostridium difficile transmission in bone marrow transplant patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 226-228

  Hanna, Hend ^a   Raad, Issam ^a   Gonzalez, Virginia ^a   Umphrey, Jan ^a   Tarrand, Jeffrey ^a   Neumann, Joyce ^a   Champlin, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034146027     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501751     Document Type: Article

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