Abstract
This article reviews the pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this nosocomial and potentially fatal infectious diarrhea, as well as the associated risk factors. New treatments include fecal microbiota transplantation for disease that is resistant to vancomycin.
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Keywords
- Medicine
- Clostridium difficile
- Fecal bacteriotherapy
- Diarrhea
- Vancomycin
- Epidemiology
- Intensive care medicine
- Pathogenesis
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Good health and well-being
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