{"id":2319,"date":"2016-12-29T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infcd\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:45:48","slug":"infcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/es\/infcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Definiciones de Infecci\u00f3n por Clostridium difficile (ICD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"7ca9444b8380138fe077da07353677a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>El Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) es una bacteria Gram-positiva, esporog\u00e9nica, generalmente diseminada por v\u00eda fecal-oral. Es no invasiva y produce toxinas A y B que causan enfermedad, que van desde el transporte asintom\u00e1tico, a diarrea leve, a colitis, o colitis pseudomembranosa. La ICD se define como el inicio agudo de la diarrea por C. difficile\u00a0toxig\u00e9nica\u00a0documentada o su toxina y ninguna otra causa documentada para la diarrea.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Definiciones de Infecci\u00f3n por Clostridium difficile (ICD)<\/b><br \/>\nEl uso de definiciones estandarizadas para la ICD asociado a centros de salud de comienzo en centros de salud (ACS-CCS), asociado a la comunidad de comienzo en centros de salud (AC-CCS), asociado a la comunidad (AC) o enfermedad indeterminada (EI) permiten la comparaci\u00f3n entre los estudios.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\"><b>Tipo de caso<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"271\"><b>Definici\u00f3n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\">Asociado a centros de salud de comienzo en centros de salud (ACS-CCS)<\/td>\n<td width=\"271\">Cuando el comienzo de los s\u00edntomas ocurre\u00a03 d\u00edas despu\u00e9s de la admisi\u00f3n a un centro de salud.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\">Asociado a la comunidad\u00a0de comienzo en centros de salud\u00a0(AC-CCS)<\/td>\n<td width=\"271\">Comienzo de los s\u00edntomas dentro de las 4 semanas despu\u00e9s de ser dado de alta de un centro de salud.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\">Asociado a la comunidad (AC)<\/td>\n<td width=\"271\">Ocurre cuando el inicio de los s\u00edntomas ocurre fuera de un centro de salud o &lt;3 d\u00edas despu\u00e9s del ingreso en un centro de salud y no ha sido dado de alta de un centro de salud en las 12 semanas previas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\">Comienzo indeterminado o desconocido (EI)<\/td>\n<td width=\"271\">ICD se desarrolla despu\u00e9s de ser dado de alta de un centro de salud 4 &#8211; 12 semanas previas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"197\">ICD recurrente<\/td>\n<td width=\"271\">Episodio de ICD que ocurre 8 semanas despu\u00e9s del comienzo de un episodio previo, siempre que se resolvieran los s\u00edntomas del episodio anterior.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Bibliograf\u00eda:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Surawicz CM, Brandt LJ, Binion DG, Ananthakrishnan AN, Curry SR, Gilligan PH, McFarland LV, Mellow M, Zuckerbraun BS. Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Clostridium difficile infections.\u00a0Am J Gastroenterol. 2013 Apr;108(4):478-98.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/23439232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bagdasarian N, Rao K, Malani PN. Diagnosis and treatment of Clostridium difficile in adults: a systematic review.\u00a0JAMA. 2015 Jan 27;313(4):398-408.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25626036\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kelly CR, Allegretti JR. Review Article: Gastroenterology and Clostridium difficile Infection: Past, Present, and Future. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Dec 5;77(Suppl 6):S463-S470. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38051967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Creado Ene 05, 2017.<br \/>\nActualizado Mar 12, 2026.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) es una bacteria Gram-positiva, esporog\u00e9nica, generalmente diseminada por v\u00eda fecal-oral. Es no invasiva y produce toxinas A y B que causan enfermedad, que van desde el transporte asintom\u00e1tico, a diarrea leve, a colitis, o colitis pseudomembranosa. La ICD se define como el inicio agudo de la diarrea por C. difficile\u00a0toxig\u00e9nica\u00a0documentada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[666,665,314,353,313,352,664,266,267],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-cdi","tag-clostridium","tag-definicion","tag-definiciones","tag-definition","tag-definitions","tag-difficile","tag-infeccion","tag-infection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Definiciones de Infecci\u00f3n por Clostridium difficile (ICD) - MedicalCRITERIA.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infcd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[:es]Definiciones de Infecci\u00f3n por Clostridium difficile (ICD)[:en]Definitions of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)[:] - MedicalCRITERIA.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"El Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) es una bacteria Gram-positiva, esporog\u00e9nica, generalmente diseminada por v\u00eda fecal-oral. 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