RT Book, Section
A1 Gerding, Dale N.
A1 Johnson, Stuart
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141406413
T1 CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION, INCLUDING PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141406413
RD 2023/12/10
AB Clostridium  difficile  infection  (CDI)  is  a  unique  colonic  disease  that  is  acquired  most  often  in  association  with  antimicrobial  use  and  the  consequent  disruption  of  the  normal  colonic  microbiota.  The  most  commonly  diagnosed  diarrheal  illness  acquired  in  the  hospital,  CDI  results  from  the  ingestion  of  spores  of  C.  difficile  that  vegetate,  multiply,  and  secrete  toxins,  causing  diarrhea  and  pseudomembranous  colitis  (PMC)  in  the  most  severe  cases.