การติดเชื้อคลอสตริเดียม ดิฟฟิไซล์

Key Facts

• The clinical illness is driven by bacterial toxins rather than direct bacterial invasion.
• It is the leading cause of infectious hospital-associated diarrhea in adults in developed countries.
• A hyper-virulent strain known as ribotype 027/NAP1 has triggered severe epidemics across multiple continents.
• Healthy companion animals frequently carry the bacteria asymptomatically, with higher colonization rates in young or hospitalized pets.