What is on that keyboard? Detecting hidden environmental reservoirs of Clostridium difficile during an outbreak associated with North American pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type 1 strains
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 37 (1), 15-19
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2008.07.009
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