{"id":27470,"date":"2024-10-23T03:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:25:42","slug":"clostridioides-difficile-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/clostridioides-difficile-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Clostridioides difficile bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Clostridioides difficile bacteria:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a bacterium that causes an <strong>infection of the colon<\/strong>, the longest part of the large intestine. Symptoms can range from diarrhea to life-threatening damage to the colon.<\/li>\n<li>Illness from C. difficile often occurs <strong>after using antibiotic medicines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It mostly affects older adults in hospitals or in long-term care settings. People not in care settings or hospitals also can get C. difficile infection.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Watery diarrhea, mild belly cramping and tenderness.<\/li>\n<li>People who have a severe C. difficile infection tend to lose too much bodily fluid, a condition called dehydration.<\/li>\n<li>C. difficile infection that is severe and sudden can cause the colon to become inflamed and get larger, <strong>called toxic megacolon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> It <strong>can be transmitted<\/strong> from patient to patient by the hands of health care workers.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly one-third of infected individuals will have recurrent infections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment:<\/strong> Treatments include a lengthy course of strong antibiotics, which also kill off beneficial bacteria in the gut, and fecal transplants to deliver healthy <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/bacteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>bacteria<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the gastrointestinal (GI) tract?<\/h3>\n<p>The gastrointestinal (GI) tract, also known as the digestive tract or alimentary canal, is a long tube that extends from the mouth to the anus and is responsible for the digestion and absorption of food and nutrients in the human body. It plays a crucial role in breaking down the food we consume into smaller particles and absorbing nutrients to provide energy for bodily functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/mrna-vaccine-shows-promise-against-c-difficile-in-animal-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MRNA Vaccine Shows Promise Against C. Difficile In Animal Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clostridioides difficile bacteria is a bacterium that causes an infection of the colon, the longest part of the large intestine. Symptoms can range from diarrhea to life-threatening damage to the colon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}