Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006

Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006–2011

Published:2014-05-12 Issue:1 Volume:14 Page:
ISSN:1471-2334
Container-title:BMC Infectious Diseases
language:en
Short-container-title:BMC Infect Dis

Author:

Faires Meredith C,Pearl David L,Ciccotelli William A,Berke Olaf,Reid-Smith Richard J,Weese J Scott

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Infectious Diseases

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2334-14-254.pdf

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