Outbreak from a high-toxin intruder: Clostridium difficile

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Volumn 366, Issue 9491, 2005, Pages 1053-1054

  Norén, Torbjörn ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 25144506619     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67400-4     Document Type: Note

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