Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Declining clinical response rates removed metronidazole (MTZ) from guidelines as a preferred agent to treat C.

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 ...

Using a diverse human gut community, researchers investigated how gut microbiota interspecies interactions affected the response of Clostridioides difficile to vancomycin and metronidazole. Findings ...

A study published in Epidemiology & Infection details the predictors of treatment failure among Clostridium difficile infection patients receiving metronidazole therapy. Researchers examined patients ...

Understanding why some strains are resistant to the antibiotic metronidazole will allow clinicians to test before treating the infection with ineffective drugs Researchers at Texas A&M University ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common hospital-acquired infection that is associated with a high clinical and economic burden. Because of this management of CDI is quickly becoming a part ...

Dear Dr. Roach: In December, I developed an abscess in my jaw from food getting caught in my tooth. I went to see a local dentist who prescribed clindamycin and metronidazole. I came down with a case ...

Researchers found that vancomycin is no longer superior to metronidazole; the change coincided with the emergence of a hypervirulent strain of C. difficile. Metronidazole and vancomycin have been the ...

AAP issues C. diff guidelines Increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile in hospitalized children prompts American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on screening and treatment. Due to high ...

Nitazoxanide is a new thiazolide antiparasitic agent that has excellent activity in treating both interstitial protozoal and helminthic infections. [3,17] Pharmacokinetic studies in humans have shown ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Over the past two decades there has been a sharp rise in the number and severity of infections caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile often shortened to C. diff now the most ...