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 ...
As Clostridium difficile creates a significant economic and morbidity burden for hospitals, researchers with Cleveland Clinic and the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston sought to ...
Vancomycin 265/309 (85.8%) 76/265 (25.3%) 198/309 (64.1%) † Clinical cure is resolution of diarrhea following the recommended dose of drug (fidaxomicin: 200 mg twice a day; vancomycin: 125 mg four ...
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 ...