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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 ,
Brian S. Metzger  and
Brian P. Currie
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 ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , March 2010 , pp. 313 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

References

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