The Effect of Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection on In-Hospital Mortality

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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine

سال: 2010

ISSN: 0003-9926

DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.405