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The Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection in Outpatient Pediatrics
Howard S Faden1, Chan-Xing Ma2
1University of Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, USA Women and Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY, USA hfaden@upa.chob.edu.
Clinical Pediatrics
|September 10, 2015
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