Preventing transmission of clostridium difficile: Is the answer blowing in the wind?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1458-1461

  Donskey, Curtis J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 77951865062     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652649     Document Type: Note

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