Clostridioides difficile infection risk and contemporary antibiotic use: Evidence from a large real-world dataset highlighting the need for a comprehensive antibiotic stewardship in dentistry.

Researchers examined antibiotic exposure patterns in over 200,000 CDI patients using a healthcare database, finding that extended-spectrum penicillins, third-generation cephalosporins, and amino penicillins were most commonly used before CDI diagnosis—not the historically flagged clindamycin and fluoroquinolones.

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