An epidemiological surveillance study (2021-2022): detection of a high diversity of Clostridioides difficile isolates in one tertiary hospital in Chongqing, Southwest China.

Background: Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium that causes antibiotic-associated infectious diarrhea and pseudomembranous enterocolitis. The impact of C. difficile infection (CDI) in China has gained significant attention in recent years.