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A Potential Cellular Explanation for the Increased Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection Due to Hypoalbuminemia: Reply Di Bella et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2015

Ying P. Tabak ,
Richard S. Johannes  and
L. Clifford McDonald
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 12 , December 2015 , pp. 1480
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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