Originally published by our sister publication, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is found in higher concentrations in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, enhances the growth of Clostridioides difficile and worsens colonic inflammation in the presence of C. difficile infection, according to new research.
“When C. difficile infection is superimposed on colitis, it synergistically worsens both conditions,” researcher Taylor Ticer, a PhD candidate at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, and colleagues reported at the 2022 Crohn’s and Colitis Congress (Inflamm Bowel Dis 2022;28[suppl 1]:S69).