By Marie Rosenthal, MS
New diagnostic methods and treatments, including fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), will help improve the care given to patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to updated guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (Clin Infect Dis 2018 Feb 15 [Epub ahead of print]).
The guidelines were recently updated because diagnosis and treatment of CDI have evolved