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Surveillance for Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea in Long-Term Care Facilities: What You Get Is Not What You See

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph M. Mylotte
Joseph M. Mylotte*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York
*
Erie County Medical Center, 462 Grider St., Buffalo, NY 14215 (mylotte@buffalo.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 8 , August 2008 , pp. 760 - 763
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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