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Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients with Acute Leukemia and Lymphoma after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sharon Leung*
Affiliation:
Divisions of Critical Care Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Brian S. Metzger
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease, Montefiore Medical Center and, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Brian P. Currie
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease, Montefiore Medical Center and, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York Foundation for Applied Epidemiology, Northvale, New Jersey
*
Div of Critical Care Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 E 210th St, Gold Zone, Main Floor, Bronx, NY 10467 (sleung@montefiore.org)
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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