Host response to Clostridium difficile infection: Diagnostics and detection.
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a significant healthcare concern worldwide, and C. difficile is recognised as the most frequent aetiological agent of infectious healthcare-associated diarrhoea in hospitalised adult patients. The clinical manifestation of CDI varies from self-limited diarrhoea to life-threatening colitis. Such a broad disease spectrum can be explained by the impact of host factors. Currently, a complex CDI aetiology is widely accepted, acknowledging the interaction between bacteria and the host. C. difficile strains producing clostridial toxins A and B are considered toxigenic and can cause disease; those not producing the toxins are non-pathogenic. A person colonised with a toxigenic strain will not necessarily develop CDI. It is imperative to recognise patients with active disease from those only colonised with this pathogen and to implement appropriate treatment. This can be achieved by diagnostics that rely on host factors specific to CDI. This review will focus on major aspects of CDI pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms, describing host factors in disease progression and assessment of the host response in order to facilitate the development of CDI-specific diagnostics.
Infectious Disease Research, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 2650 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201, USA; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: EUsacheva@northshore.org.
Elena A
EA
Usacheva
Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Jian-P
JP
Jin
Infectious Disease Research, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 2650 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201, USA; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Lance R
LR
Peterson
D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003092:Colitis / Q000382:microbiology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors
Biomarker; CDI; Clostridium difficile infection; Diagnostics; Host response; Pathogenesis
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