A 4-week vancomycin pulse and taper regimen may be a safe and effective strategy to delay or prevent Clostridioides difficile ...

A vancomycin pulse and taper regimen was superior to a standard pulse regimen for the prevention of recurrent CDI.

When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and learned I had Clostridioides difficile, an infection in the large intestine. The ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common infections picked up in hospitals, and, even once it’s cleared from the body, patients have a 1 in 6 chance of catching it again within ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...

In children with febrile urinary tract infections (UTIs), an individualised antibiotic treatment regimen stopped 3 days after the achievement of adequate clinical improvement increased the risk for ...