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Clinical and Molecular Characteristics of an Outbreak Caused by the Pandemic (BI/NAP1/027) Clostridium difficile Clone in a Single Center in Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Yonit Wiener-Well ,
Eli Ben-Chetrit ,
Mustafa Abed-Eldaim ,
Marc V. Assous ,
Tamar Miller-Roll  and
Amos Adler
Yonit Wiener-Well*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Eli Ben-Chetrit
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Mustafa Abed-Eldaim
Affiliation:
Internal Medicine, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Marc V. Assous
Affiliation:
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Tamar Miller-Roll
Affiliation:
National Center of Infection Control, Ministry of Health, affiliated with Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Amos Adler
Affiliation:
National Center of Infection Control, Ministry of Health, affiliated with Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel
*
([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 10 , October 2014 , pp. 1306 - 1308
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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