Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection

Course overview

Once considered to be exclusively a hospital-acquired infection, over 50% of Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) cases were community-associated in 2019. Infections in those considered low-risk (peripartum women, children, and young, healthy adults) have increased, and many infected patients lack the usual predisposing CDI risk factors. This course discusses risk factors related to the emergence of community CDI, ways community-associated CDIs are transmitted, and current prevention and treatment guidelines for CDI.