Prevalence of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) among Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patients in Comparison to Non-IBD Patients in King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah.

Ghassan Abdulrahman SukkarSyed Sameer AgaAbdulrahman Hamid AlsamadaniFaisal Ghazi AlmalkiAli Saleh AlsudaisAbdulrahman Sulaiman AlquziMohamed Eldigire AhmedMushtaq Ahmad MirMoudi M Alasmari

Published in: Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases (2023)

In this study, we found that adults were more prone to CDI infection, especially within hospital settings, and most of the CDI infections occurred in immunocompromised individuals, with cancer as the most common cause of it.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
emergency department
intensive care unit
papillary thyroid
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
ulcerative colitis
lymph node metastasis
clinical evaluation