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Relationship between clostridium difficile infection and gastrointestinal graft versus host disease in recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplantation

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  1. Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Divaya Bhutani

  2. Department of Internal medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Charles Jaiyeoba & Paul Naylor

  3. Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Seongho Kim, Joseph P. Uberti, Voravit Ratanatharathorn, Lois Ayash, Abhinav Deol, Asif Alavi, Sanjay Revankar & Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

  4. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Sanjay Revankar & Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

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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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