Immune responses to Clostridium difficile infection.

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Published in Trends Mol Med on October 16, 2012

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Rajat Madan1, William A Petri

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1: Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1337, USA.

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