Clostridium difficile: The more we learn, the less we know

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 16-18

  Roth, Virginia R ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HAND WASHING; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS;

EID: 85001832886     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.257     Document Type: Note

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