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Editorial
. 2024 Feb 26:11:1372813.
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1372813. eCollection 2024.

Editorial: Clostridioides difficile infection

Guido Granata  1 , Frédéric Barbut  2 , Nicola Petrosillo  3
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Editorial

Editorial: Clostridioides difficile infection

Guido Granata et al. Front Med (Lausanne). .
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Keywords: CDI underdiagnosis; COVID-19 pandemic; Clostridiodes difficile asymptomatic carriers; Clostridioides difficile infection; community CDI; companion animals and Clostridioides difficile; delayed CDI diagnosis; misdiagnosis.

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Conflict of interest statement

NP reports payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from MSD, Pfizer, Novartis, BD, Johnson and Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Tillots, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Roche; support from European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) to attend European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID); and is on the data safety monitoring board for ImmuneMed. GG reports payment or honoraria for lectures and presentations from MSD, Tillots. FB is advisory board member for and/or has received scientific grants from Abbott, Astellas, Biomérieux, Cepheid, Cubist, Da Volterra, Elitech, Danone, Hologic, Merck, Pfizer, Quidel, Sanofi Pasteur, Summit, and Tillots.

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