Clostridium difficile: (Re)emergence of Zoonotic Potential

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 583-584

  Rupnik, Maja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Institute of Public Health Maribor   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CROSS INFECTION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77955820324     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655693     Document Type: Note

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