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 ...

The tapered/pulsed regimen consisted of 125 mg of vancomycin four times daily for 10 days, followed by once daily for 7 days, ...

Researchers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have discovered a type of gut bacteria that could prove effective where other types of helpful bacteria have failed in the fight against ...

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 ...

Thirty-day all-cause mortality among patients with severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) was significantly lower when vancomycin was used as first-line therapy compared with metronidazole, ...

Seres Therapeutics reported results from an interim phase 2 trial for its colon infection treatment weren’t found to be statistically significant. 1. The treatment, SER-109, is intended for multiply ...