Sartelli, MassimoMcFarland, Lynne V.Khanna, SahilFuruya Kanamori, LuisAbuzeid, NadirAbu-Zizan, Fikri M.Ansaloni, LucaAgustin, GoranBala, MikloshBen-Ishay, OffirBiffl, Walter L.Brecher, Stephen M.Camacho Ortiz, AdriánCaínzos Fernández, Miguel ÁngelChan, ShirleyCherry-Bukowiec, Jill R.Clanton, JesseCoccolini, FedericoCocuz, María E.Coimbra, RaúlCortese, FrancescoCui, YunfengCzepiel, JacekDemetrashvili, ZazaDi Carlo, IsidoroDi Saverio, SalomoneDumitru, Irina M.Eckmann, ChristianEiland, Edward H.Forrester, Joseph D.Fraga, Gustavo P.Frossard, Jean L.Fry, Donald E.Galeiras, RitaGhnnam, WagihGomes, Carlos A.Griffiths, Ewen A.Guirao, XavierAhmed, Mohamed H.Herzog, TorstenKim, Jae IIIqbal, TariqIsik, ArdaItani, Kamal M.F.Labricciosa, Francesco M.Lee, Yeong Y.Juang, PaulKaramarkovic, AleksandarKim, Peter K.Kluger, YoramLeppaniemi, AriLohsiriwat, VarutMachain, Gustavo M.Marwah, SanjayMazuski, John E.Metan, GokhanMoore, Ernest E.Moore, Frederick A.Ordoñez, Carlos A.Pagani, LeonardoPetrosillo, NicolaPortela, FranciscoRasa, KemalRems, MiranSakakushev, Boris E.Segovia-Lohse, HelmutSganga, GabrieleShelat, Vishal G.Spigaglia, PatriziaTattevin, PierreTranà, CristianUrbánek, LiborUlrych, JanViale, PierluigiCatena, FaustoDi Bella, Stefano2020-04-082020-04-082019Sartelli, M., Di Bella, S., McFarland, L.V. et al. 2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients. World J Emerg Surg 14, 8 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-019-0228-3http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21258In the last three decades, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has increased in incidence and severity in many countries worldwide. The increase in CDI incidence has been particularly apparent among surgical patients. Therefore, prevention of CDI and optimization of management in the surgical patient are paramount. An international multidisciplinary panel of experts from the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) updated its guidelines for management of CDI in surgical patients according to the most recent available literature. The update includes recent changes introduced in the management of this infectioneng© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise statedhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Clostridioides difficile infectionClostridium difficile infectionPseudomembranous colitisAntimicrobialFecal microbiota transplantationInfection controlAntimicrobial stewardshipjournal article10.1186/s13017-019-0228-31749-7922open access