Retrospective analysis of Clostridioides difficile and other intestinal infections in patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in the tertiary hospital in Poland. POLIBD survey results.

Intestinal infections were reported in 14.9% of patients (102/685) with IBD symptoms. Positive test results for C. difficile toxins A and B and rectal swab cultures among patients without IBD symptoms were reported in 35.7% of cases (281/786). Intestinal superinfections may complicate the clinical picture of IBD patients, increasing the diagnostic and therapeutic burden. Appropriate early procedures are thus needed in these patients.