Making health care safer: stopping C. difficile infections.

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Making health care safer: stopping C. difficile infections.

June 27, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This newsletter article and accompanying set of infographics describes strategies to help patients and health care providers prevent health care–associated infections.

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