Vancomycin Prevents C. Diff in Patients Receiving Stem Cell Transplants For hospitalized patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of blood cancer, the most common infection—and the most costly to treat—is Clostridium difficile infection, commonly known as C. diff....
Metronidazole was inferior to vancomycin for treating C. difficile infection in terms of both initial clinical cure rates (risk ratio, RR = 0.91, 95% confidence interval, CI = 0.84–0.98, p = 0.02) and sustained cure rates (RR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.82–0.96, p = 0.003). For mild C....
Vancomycin is an antibiotic typically used to treat colon inflammation (colitis) anddiarrheathat may occur sometimes after antibacterial treatment, and bacterial infectionsthat are resistant to other antibiotics. Vancomycin belongs to a class of antibiotics known as glycopeptides which are considered the l...
We aim to provide an update of the most recent therapeutic strategies to treat deep-seated infections due to VRE.doi:10.1007/s11908-019-0680-yGerman A. ContrerasDepartment of Internal Medicine, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, USAJose M. Munita...
day 17, 88.9% of mice treated with BC30 had normal difficile/Vancotreatedmice(greensymbolsandlines).The stoolscomparedto0%ofmicewithnormalstoolsinthe stoolconsistencyscoresweresignificantlylowerinthisco- Vehicletreatedanimals(p=0.0004vs.Vehicle). hortofanimals(p0.05vs.Vehicle/C.difficile/Vancotreat- ...