Study Upsets Paradigm of C. diff. Virulence

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Sun, 03/01/2009 - 16:04

VICTORIA, Australia (MedPage Today) -- Clinicians have had the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the virulence of Clostridium difficile, researchers here said.


 

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