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Current knowledge on the laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection

2017; Baishideng Publishing Group; Volume: 23; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3748/wjg.v23.i9.1552

2219-2840

Adrián Martínez-Meléndez, Adrián Camacho-Ortíz, Rayo Morfín‐Otero, Héctor Jesús Maldonado-Garza, Licet Villarreal-Treviño, Elvira Garza‐González,

Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies

Clostridium difficile (C.difficile ) is a spore-forming, toxin-producing, gram-positive anaerobic bacterium that is the principal etiologic agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.Infection with C. difficile (CDI) is characterized by diarrhea in clinical syndromes that vary from selflimited to mild or severe.Since its initial recognition as the causative agent of pseudomembranous colitis,