Clostridium difficile: An emerging food safety risk

Food Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 40-49

  Rodriguez Palacios, Alex ^a   Lejeune, Jeffrey T ^b   Hoover, Dallas G ^c  

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

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84868036176     PISSN: 00156639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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