Intensive care medicine

Biology

C difficile

Clostridium difficile

Clostridium Difficile Colitis

Infection control

Diarrhea

Physics

Colitis

Optics

Antibiotics

Fulminant

Microbiology

Internal medicine

Medicine

Incidence (geometry)

Clostridioides

Annals of Internal Medicine

Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection is the most frequently identified health care-associated infection in the United States. C difficile has also emerged as a cause of community-associated diarrhea, resulting in increased incidence of community-associated infection. Clinical illness ranges in severity from mild diarrhea to fulminant colitis and death. Appropriate management of infection requires understanding of the various diagnostic assays and therapeutic options as well as relevant measures to infection prevention. This article provides updated recommendations regarding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of incident and recurrent C difficile infection.

<i>Clostridioides difficile</i> Infection

Clostridioides difficile Infection