Increasing Incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated Disease, Singapore
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Denise Drudy, Bram Goorhuis, Dennis Bakker, Lorraine Kyne, Renate van den Berg, Lynda Fenelon, Seamus Fanning, and Edward J. Kuijper Author affi liations: University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (D. Drudy, L. Kyne, L. Fenelon, S. Fanning); Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (B. Goorhuis, D. Bakker, R. van den Berg, E.J. Kuijper); and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (E.J. Kuijper)
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008