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Clostridium Difficile (c. diff) Overview #Diagnosis #Management #Clostridium #CDifficile #Overview #FOAMCast
Clostridium Difficile ... diff) Overview #Diagnosis ... #Management #Clostridium ... #CDifficile #Overview
Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis and Management Algorithm

IDAGRAM based on most recent guidelines from @IDSAInfo.

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Clostridium Difficile ... Diagnosis and Management ... @ID_agram #Clostridium ... #Difficile #Algorithm ... #Treatment #Diagnosis
Summary of Available Tests for Clostridium difficile Infection, in Decreasing Order of Sensitivity
 • Toxigenic culture
Available Tests for Clostridium ... difficile Infection ... Spec Low, Detects Clostridium ... Free toxins #Clostridium ... #laboratory #diagnosis
Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections

Epidemiology
Diagnosis
Prevention
Treatment Algorithm
Suppression and Prophylaxis

By Tina Hang, MD @TinaPhamHang via
Prevention, Diagnosis ... Clostridioides difficile ... Epidemiology Diagnosis ... Clostridioides #difficile ... #clostridium #cdiff
Acute Diarrhea - Differential Diagnosis Framework
1)  Diagnostic studies only for dysentery, severe disease, >7 days
2)
- Differential Diagnosis ... Framework 1) Diagnostic ... • Bacterial: Clostridium ... Infectious - Invasive: Clostridium ... difficile, Campylobacter
Causes of Acute Infectious Diarrhea
Noninflammatory Diarrhea
Viral - Noroviruses, astrovirus, adenovirus, Rotavirus, sapovirus
Protozoal - Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium,
Bacillus cereus, Clostridium ... parahaemolyticus, Clostridium ... difficile 2. ... #differential #diagnosis
Infectious Diarrhea - Laboratory Testing

Clostridium difficile
Salmonella enterica, Shigella spp, Campylobacter spp 
Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and
Laboratory Testing Clostridium ... difficile Salmonella ... enteroaggregative) Clostridium ... cereus, S. aureus Clostridium ... Infectious #Diarrhea #diagnosis
Common causes of post-Transplant Diarrhea
 • Bacterial: Clostridium difficile, Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., Bacterial overgrowth, Aeromonus
• Bacterial: Clostridium ... difficile, Campylobacter ... Transplant #Diarrhea #diagnosis
Causes of Toxic Megacolon - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 • Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative colitis, Crohn's colitis
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Infection: Clostridium ... difficile, Amoebic ... #Differential #Diagnosis
IDSA Recommendations for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults
Source: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix1085

#Management #Clostridium #CDifficile #IDSA2017 #Guidelines
the Treatment of Clostridium ... difficile Infection ... #Management #Clostridium ... #CDifficile #IDSA2017