To the editor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 2368-2369

  Banaei, Niaz ^a   Anikst, Victoria ^a   Schroeder, Lee Frederick ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; LAXATIVE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84930809934     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1505190     Document Type: Letter

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