ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
Bacterial intestinal infections
1A04 — Intestinal infections due to Clostridioides difficile
ICD-11 1A04 — Intestinal infections due to Clostridioides difficile
A disease of the colon, caused by an infection with the gram-positive bacteria Clostridioides difficile (formerly known as Clostridium difficile). This disease is characterised by colitis, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, and fever. Transmission is commonly by direct or indirect contact, or from a disturbance of the normal bacterial flora of the colon. Confirmation is by identification of Clostridioides difficile in a faecal sample.
It includes 1 item.
- Pseudomembranous colitis
It excludes 1 item.
- Necrotising enterocolitis of newborn (KB88)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.