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Clostridioides difficile infections complicating combat-injured patients from Iraq and Afghanistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2020

Sarah E. Schall ,
Ping Li ,
Timothy J. Whitman ,
Joseph L. Petfield ,
David R. Tribble  and
Dana M. Blyth
Sarah E. Schall
Affiliation:
Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States
Ping Li
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Timothy J. Whitman
Affiliation:
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Joseph L. Petfield
Affiliation:
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany
David R. Tribble
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Dana M. Blyth*
Affiliation:
Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States
*
Author for correspondence: Dana Blyth, E-mail: Dana.m.blyth.mil@mail.mil
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 9 , September 2020 , pp. 1100 - 1102
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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: Some of these data were presented at 2018 IDWeek, A Joint Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), October 4, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

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