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Clostridioides difficile

Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing, 2022
Abstract The purpose of this article is to present an exemplar related to diagnostic testing whereby reasoned decisions can assist the pediatric surgical clinician in the expeditious screening, diagnosis, and management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). In 2017, the Emerging Infections Program for CDI reported that the incidence of
Eliane de Oliveira Ferreira, Gerly Anne de Castro Brito   +1 more
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Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile

Medicine, 2021
This chapter evaluates Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile, a gram-positive anaerobic spore-forming bacillus found in colon flora. When C. difficile is induced to produce exotoxins (A/B) symptomatic disease (i.e., diarrhea/colitis) follows. The clinical spectrum of infection ranges from watery toxigenic diarrhea to invasive transmural colitis.
Cheston B. Cunha, Burke A. Cunha
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Clostridioides difficile Colitis

Surgical Clinics of North America
Clostridioides difficile colitis is an important source of hospital-acquired diarrhea associated with antibiotic use. Symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea, typically following a course of antibiotics; however, some cases of fulminant disease may manifest with shock, ileus, or megacolon. Nonfulminant colitis is treated with oral fidaxomicin. C difficile
Luke, Pumiglia, Lexi, Wilson, Laila, Rashidi   +2 more
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Clostridioides difficile colitis

2020
A 32-year-old woman presents with 3 days of crampy abdominal pain associated with frequent loose stools. She states that the diarrhea is now bloody and is occurring almost every hour. She was in good health until 2 weeks ago when she was diagnosed with pyelonephritis, treated with a 10-day course of ciprofloxacin.
null Stephen A. Burky, MD, null Emily Neal   +1 more
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