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Public Reporting of Clostridium difficile and Improvements in Diagnostic Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Simon D. Goldenberg
Simon D. Goldenberg*
Affiliation:
Guy's and St. Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; and King's College, London, United Kingdom
*
St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom (simon.goldenberg@gstt.nhs.uk)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 12 , December 2011 , pp. 1231 - 1232
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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