Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: a plea for culture.

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Published in J Med Microbiol on February 01, 2005

Authors

Michel Delmée1, Johan Van Broeck, Anne Simon, Michèle Janssens, Véronique Avesani

Author Affiliations

1: Université Catholique de Louvain, Microbiology Unit, Avenue Hippocrate, 54.90, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. delmee@mblg.ucl.ac.be

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