Diagnostic Approaches for Clostridioides difficile Infection

This article offers a clinically focused overview of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) diagnosis, emphasizing the need to test only symptomatic patients and to distinguish true infection from colonization. It reviews multistep diagnostic algorithms that pair glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) test...

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Published in:	Infectious disease clinics of North America Vol. 39; no. 4; p. 611
Main Authors:	Berry, Parul, Khanna, Sahil
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.12.2025
Subjects:	Clostridioides difficile - genetics Clostridioides difficile - isolation & purification Clostridium Infections - diagnosis Clostridium Infections - microbiology Glutamate Dehydrogenase Humans Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques - methods Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods Glutamate dehydrogenase Pseudomembranous Clostridioides difficile infection Multistep testing algorithm Clostridioides difficile infection diagnosis Diagnostic stewardship
ISSN:	1557-9824, 1557-9824
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