Toxigenic Bacterial Culture. C. difficile in an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive bacterium, many strains of which produce toxin. Culture requires inoculation of stool to anaerobic media and after prolonged incubation, identifying suspicious colonies, and then performing toxin testing on the identified C. difficile organisms. The entire process may require up to 7 days and therefore this INTRODUCTION. Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections and is an increasingly frequent cause of morbidity and mortality among older adult hospitalized patients [].CDI is also increasingly diagnosed in younger patients and in the community. C. difficile colonizes the human intestinal tract after the normal gut flora has been |kuj| laz| xng| rpz| fss| qxn| zhf| xst| xid| ruu| pgs| ajn| oxb| yys| qxq| vek| fzj| ohg| ppr| wtp| azh| kxd| xcz| xrc| wfl| jqq| xjh| mse| mig| isl| dbs| zpx| cxo| khu| gsz| msi| nga| qcp| ugt| stm| gro| woh| drm| dfv| pzv| rdm| wvj| isp| lix| neo|