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What's Lurking Under the Bed? Persistence and Predominance of Particular Clostridium difficile Strains in a Hospital and the Potential Role of Environmental Contamination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lynne V. McFarland
Lynne V. McFarland*
Affiliation:
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
*
Diabetes Health Enhancement Program, 6727 Rainier Avenue S, # 17, Seattle, WA 98118
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 11 , November 2002 , pp. 639 - 640
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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