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Effective treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection improves survival and affects graft-versus-host disease: a multicenter study by the Polish Adult Leukemia Group
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Bhutani, D., Jaiyeoba, C., Kim, S. et al. Relationship between clostridium difficile infection and gastrointestinal graft versus host disease in recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 54, 164–167 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0270-x
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