Quantitative detection of Clostridium difficile in hospital environmental samples by real-time polymerase chain reaction
- 31 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 71 (1), 43-48
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2008.10.021
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