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Clostridium difficile: The More We Learn, the Less We Know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2015

Virginia R. Roth
Virginia R. Roth*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine, Community Medicine and Epidemiology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa Health Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
*
Address correspondence to Virginia Roth, MD, MBA. Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ottawa Hospital. 501 Smyth Road, Room G-12. Ottawa, ON Canada K1H 8L6 (vroth@toh.ca).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 16 - 18
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