H.H. Tsai
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) plays an important part in the clinical course of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). CDI is more common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and may provoke flares of the disease . There is a worrying recent rise in reported incidence in both IBD and non-IBD patients. Although it is intuitive to deduce that infection with CD would confer a worse outcome in terms hospital stay and mortality, the evidence is still rather sketchy
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