Current guidelines recommend using either metronidazole or vancomycin to treat C. diff infections. “For many years the two antibiotics were considered to be equivalent in their ability to cure C. diff ...

Researchers recently conducted a multicenter observational cohort study to examine the condition severity and the clinical outcomes of patients with different Clostridium difficile strains. The ...

C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69(11):933-943. Based on current clinical trials reporting fewer recurrences among patients treated with fidaxomicin in which the non-NAP1/BI/027 strains were isolated, ...

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Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is considered to be the main cause of bacterial infectious diarrhea in nosocomial settings. Since the beginning of the new century a continuous rise in the ...