CRP and clostridium difficile infection: As shown in Table 3, univariate predictors of mortality for the cirrhosis and CDI patients included Child–Pugh score (p-value = 0.026), leukocytes (p-value = 0.023), CRP (p-value = 0.012), Atlas score (p-value = 0.011) and MELD (p-value = 0.022).